cgi scripts

[Mike Egglestone <mi...@fc.schdist57.bc.ca>]

Hi all..
I'm very new to apache and perl...
but I'm stuck with a web page that has some
.acgi and .cgi files....
I'm running potato and did an apt-get install apache-perl...
It wiped out my apache and perl seperately....(early installs)
That seemed good...
everything seems good except for those scripts....
These are the changes I made to the default srm.conf and access.conf files...

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/Scripts/

...and later down the file....

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

This is the change in the access.conf:

<Directory /var/www/Scripts/>
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
</Directory>

I think thats it.....the web page stuff is in /var/www/ 
and along with some other junk....gifs and such... 
the Scripts folder in there has some other folders with other .cgi and .acgi files
kicking around.......
I've checked the permissions.. I think they're fine....
If I try http://localhost/cgi-bin/blahblah.cgi... I get an Internal server error.....
or if I try a couple folders past ..../cgi-bin/.............  .cgi    same thing....

I'm thinking that the script isn't being executed by perl ... 
I figure I'm missing something in my conf files...
gotta hunt through those docs again....
Any help on this matter is greatly appreciated....

Mike

Re: cgi scripts

["G.W. Haywood" <ge...@www.jubileegroup.co.uk>]

Hi there,

On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Mike Egglestone wrote:

> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/Scripts/
> ...and later down the file....
> AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

Look for mention of the ScriptaAlias directive in
http://perl/apache.org/guide

> Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks

You might want to investigate the use of '+' in front of those.

> I'm thinking that the script isn't being executed by perl ... 

It's that Guide again!

> gotta hunt through those docs again....

Start with the one entitled "SUPPORT".  It comes with mod_perl.
Then the Guide.  (You'll be a while, reading that:)

73,
Ged.