How to configure Apache to make work CGI ???

[Alexandru Boboc <bo...@pdigi1.igi.pd.cnr.it>]

>
>Ciao from Italy,
>
>I am e new user of Apache(2 weeks). I have installed RedHat 6.2 with
>Apache web server...
>
>I am using Perl and I can not able to use CGI under NETSCAPE( i tried
>to configure the Apache Web Server and the Net domains(hostname and
>virtual hosts) with Linuxconf )).
>Can somenane tell me how to configurate Apache to make works CGI's ?
>	I don't have connection of the NET and I want to have a
>webserver on my computer only.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Alexandru Boboc

Re: How to configure Apache to make work CGI ???

[Jon Wyatt <sa...@samur1.demon.co.uk>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexandru Boboc" <bo...@pdigi1.igi.pd.cnr.it>
To: <mo...@apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 12:19 PM
Subject: How to configure Apache to make work CGI ???


Wrong forum really, I think you need the apache specific forum.

But.....

Sounds like you need to ensure your localhost network is set up correctly
first (i.e., get to the point where you can ping localhost)
Then you need to ensure apache is configured so you can access html pages on
your local machine. This may require some browser configuration too)
Then you need to configure apache to allow execution of cgi scripts.

If you already have achieved some of these then you need to be more specific
about what isn't happening and what error messages you are getting.

Jon.

Re: How to configure Apache to make work CGI ???

[Rob Tanner <rt...@onlinemac.com>]

--On 07/05/00 13:19:40 +0200 Alexandru Boboc <bo...@pdigi1.igi.pd.cnr.it> 
wrote:

>
>>
>> Ciao from Italy,
>>
>> I am e new user of Apache(2 weeks). I have installed RedHat 6.2 with
>> Apache web server...
>>
>> I am using Perl and I can not able to use CGI under NETSCAPE( i tried
>> to configure the Apache Web Server and the Net domains(hostname and
>> virtual hosts) with Linuxconf )).
>> Can somenane tell me how to configurate Apache to make works CGI's ?

If you installed Apache from an rpm file, you never know what you're going 
to get.  For something like Apache, you should go direct to www.apache.org, 
get a source tarball of version 1.3.12 (current release), and build it. 
The command "./configure ; make" in the package root will give you a 
reasonable server that will install in /usr/local.  The default httpd.conf 
file will already have the handlers set for CGI.  The default, I believe, 
is CGI's only in cgi-bin, but you can also comment that out so CGI's can 
run anywhere if you're the only user and there aren't any other security 
issues involved.

If you go through the INSTALL and README documentation, you will find 
examples of how to customize the Apache build to your liking using config 
options such as "--enable-module=most" to add the optional modules like 
mod_proxy, and "--enable-shared=max" to build Apache with dynamic libraries.

I personally tend towards building the apache core statically including 
those 3rd party (not in the Apache tarball) modules that are part of my 
core build, but also add mod_so so that I can further add modules 
dynamically if the need arises.  Thus for me, the following would be a 
typical configure:

./configure \
  --with-layout=Apache  \
  --activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a \
  --activate-module=src/modules/php3/libphp3.a \
  --with-perl=/usr/bin/perl \
  --enable-rule=EAPI \
  --enable-module=most \
  --enable-module=ssl \
  --enable-module=so

Hope that helps.

-- Rob

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