problems

["Murali K. Vemuri" <mu...@multitech.co.in>]

hi ,

i wanna add a perl script handler for the apache and i could not
understand from the help files.
forgive me, i am a newbie in the 'apache configuration'. can someone
please suggest me
how i can do this...
my intention is to call perl scripts directly.

--
regards & thanks for your time,
Murali Krishna Vemuri
--All blue, I write with a Blue Pencil on a Blue Sky.

Re: problems

[Owen Boyle <ob...@bourse.ch>]

"Murali K. Vemuri" wrote:
> 
> 
> hi ,
> 
> i wanna add a perl script handler for the apache and i could not
> understand from the help files.
> forgive me, i am a newbie in the 'apache configuration'. can someone
> please suggest me
> how i can do this...
> my intention is to call perl scripts directly.

Two ways:

1) Put all your perl-scripts in one directory (e.g. called "cgi") then
do:

ScriptAlias /cgi /path/to/cgi
<Directory /path/to/cgi>
  Allow from all
</Directory>

now http://your-server/cgi/prog.pl will execute /path/to/cgi/prog.pl


2) Define an extension as executable, e.g.

AddHandler cgi-script cgi

then any program ending in ".cgi" in any directory will get executed.
So;

http://your-server/banana/prog.cgi will execute
/path/to/docroot/banana/prog.cgi

Remember that in either case, the program runs as the user defined by
the "User" directive (i.e. not as the fileowner) and you must generate a
proper CGI header before anything else... Read
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/cgi.html for details.

Rgds,

Owen Boyle.

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