Re: cgi-bin will not execute perl program

On 6/14/07, Mumia W. <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/14/2007 02:24 AM, whitsey wrote:
> > Mumia W. wrote:
> >> On 06/12/2007 09:38 PM, whitsey wrote:
> >>> <Directory "/usr/local/apache2.0.54/bindist/cgi-bin">
> >>>     AllowOverride None
> >>>     Options None
> >>
> >> You need "Options ExecCGI" or (more probably) "Options +ExecCGI"
> >
> > The Apache/Tomcat documentation states that the "ScriptAlias"
> > directive automatically assigns the alias as a cgi-bin, therefore all
> > files within this directory are by default assigned as files to be
> > executed.
> >
> > I did add this however is made no difference...
>
> You're right. Your configuration code (without +ExecCGI) worked on my
> system (Apache2, Debian 3.1 i386), so I can't say why it doesn't work
> for you.
>

Interesting, I've been putting ExecCGI into options for years, thought
it was required.

Did some tinkering, commented out that option and Add-Handler which I
also thought was required and my cgi code still worked.

#Options ExecCGI
#AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

Then I found that if I commented out this line:

LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so

My cgi code no longer worked, it just displayed the source of my perl
code in the browser window.

Do you have a load module for mod_cgi in your httpd.conf file?

BTW - this was with Apache/2.2.4 on fedora 6.

Mike