Hello On 16 Dec 2001, Ian Bicking wrote: > On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 17:01, Richard Gordon wrote: > > One question- I played with WebKit.cgi and OneShot.cgi before then > > building wkcgi. I couldn't get the latter to execute without an > > extension, so I wound up renaming it to wk.cgi and it works fine, but > > did I miss a trick (e.g., is adding an extension always necessary)? > > This stuff runs on apache/linux and I don't have write privileges to > > httpd.conf anyway, but I don't recall there being a way to call cgi > > scripts without an extension that has been defined as cgi. > > It depends on your Apache configuration. .cgi is probably most common, > especially on shared hosts, but sometimes it won't work either, and the > file has to be in cgi-bin (usually for security). I think it can be set > so that any executable in cgi-bin will get called too. But yeah, naming > it .cgi by default would be best.
AFAIR you have to use the cgi extension if an else ordinary directory is marked with +ExecCGI. If you have a file in a ScriptAlias directory it can have any extension to be executable. (Don't take my word for it though ;-) ) Stefan _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
