Re: cgi-bin will not execute perl program

On Jun 15, 6:20 am, [email protected] (Mike Williams) wrote:
> On 6/14/07, Mumia W. <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > 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
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> > >> You need "Options ExecCGI" or (more probably) "Options +ExecCGI"
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> > > 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.
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> > > I did add this however is made no difference...
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> > 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.
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> Interesting, I've been putting ExecCGI into options for years, thought
> it was required.
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> Did some tinkering, commented out that option and Add-Handler which I
> also thought was required and my cgi code still worked.
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> #Options ExecCGI
> #AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
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> Then I found that if I commented out this line:
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> LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
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> My cgi code no longer worked, it just displayed the source of my perl
> code in the browser window.
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> Do you have a load module for mod_cgi in your httpd.conf file?
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> BTW - this was with Apache/2.2.4 on fedora 6.
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That is it!!! I can't beleive I didn't even check that.  Assumed it
was a given that it would be there...