other/5825: Mass v-hosting ignores %1 in VirtualScriptAlias

[Chris Mills <C....@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk>]

>Number:         5825
>Category:       other
>Synopsis:       Mass v-hosting ignores %1 in VirtualScriptAlias
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 01 03:50:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     C.P.Mills@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk
>Release:        1.3.9
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
Linux www-svr2.rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk 2.2.5-15smp #1 SMP Mon Apr 19 22:43:28 EDT 1999 i686 unknown

Compiler egcs-2.91.66
>Description:
I have mass vhosting working well with the following config (extracted from httpd.conf)

<VirtualHost 193.63.247.70>
        VirtualDocumentRoot /home/webs/%1/public_html
</VirtualHost>

I now want to add a script alias to each vhost using VirtualScriptAlias e.g:

<VirtualHost 193.63.247.70>
        VirtualDocumentRoot /home/webs/%1/public_html
        VirtualScriptAlias  /home/webs/%1/cgi-bin
</VirtualHost>

However when trying to run a cgi script on one of the vhosts, I get a 403 Forbidden.

The log file reports:

[Wed Mar  1 12:51:44 2000] [error] [client 193.63.247.66] file permissions deny server execution: /home/webs/cgi-bin/test-cgi

I have confirmed that cgi script and the cgi-bin directory has world execute rights. Notice in the logged error it is missing the %1 directory bit between /home/webs/ and cgi-bin/test-cgi.
>How-To-Repeat:
Configure vhosting as above.

URL's are pointless as you just get a 403 returned.
>Fix:
No!
>Release-Note:
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