Re: mod_ruby gets 503 error

> > Now when I view the apache error log I noticed something interesting.  
> > It seems that somehow it is redirecting the .rb files to a default 
> > cgi-bin directory.  It is showing this:
> > 
> > [Sun Jan 22 02:36:10 2006] [error] [client 203.14.211.15] Symbolic link 
> > not allowed: /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/
> > [Sun Jan 22 06:55:12 2006] [error] [client 218.200.122.35] Symbolic link 
> > not allowed: /home/
> > 
> > Any ideas on how to fix this?
> 
> Yes - either remove the symlinks, or set options FollowSymLinks in your
> Apache config. For example, perhaps /usr/local/www/cgi-bin is a symlink to
> /usr/local/www/cgi-bin-dist or something like that. The default is that
> Apache will not follow them, for security reasons.

In addition - as to why it's redirecting some page to a cgi-bin directory -
I can't answer that unless you stick the whole Apache config on a website
somewhere and post the URL here. Also, access a specific page (say /foo.rb)
and post the access log and error log entries which correspond to that hit.

Brian.