Re: Easy (probably) newb question

James Hoagland <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Feb 2003 22:01:12 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids.snort.snarf
Message-ID <a05200f1dba762ac3b7b0@[10.0.0.233]>
At 5:10 PM -0800 2/15/03, Lance Lloyd wrote:
>I have my SnortSnarf mostly working finally. Just two things are 
>askew, and they're most likely related.  When I click the link to 
>view/add annotations, it brings up view_annotations.pl as though 
>viewed purposely through a text editor, i.e. I see lines of perl 
>code.  The other is sel_to_add.pl when I click to add items to a 
>labeled set, opens up as being viewed through a text editor. 
>
>I'm sure this is some lame newb mistake, but as I am the newb, I 
>can't seem to track it down.

You need to configure your web server to execute those files as CGI. 
The most common way to do this is to put them in a special directory.

Best regards,

   Jim
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