[users@httpd] Directory Directive Options & CGI script

[Christian Kuczkowski <Ch...@HeroData.com>]

Hello all,

Newby to this listserver & a novice at apache web server in general. I
have set up some CGI executeables in a cgi-bin directory on the
webserver, & applied the ExecCGI option for that cgi-bin directory  in
the httpd.conf. The cgi executeables will only run when I also have a
scriptalias defined for that cgi-bin directory. Is that how it is
supposed to be? The apache documentation lead me to believe that all I
needed was ExecCGI options set on the directory directive.

The reason I bring this up is due to the nature of the CGI executeable.
It is placing files in a sub-directory (cgi-bin/attachements), which I
want to give users access to. However, Apache blocks permission to these
files. I tried using a separate directory directive with options set to
Indexes, but it didn't make any difference. When I remove the
scriptalias, the files are accessible again, however the cgi-bin
executeables won't run. I tried allowing override with an .htaccess
file, that also had no effect. 

Anyone have any insight? Thanks.

Keep the Faith,
Christian K.



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Re: [users@httpd] Directory Directive Options & CGI script

[Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>]

On Fri, 21 May 2004, Christian Kuczkowski wrote:
> Newby to this listserver & a novice at apache web server in general. I
> have set up some CGI executeables in a cgi-bin directory on the
> webserver, & applied the ExecCGI option for that cgi-bin directory  in
> the httpd.conf. The cgi executeables will only run when I also have a
> scriptalias defined for that cgi-bin directory. Is that how it is
> supposed to be? The apache documentation lead me to believe that all I
> needed was ExecCGI options set on the directory directive.

See:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/cgi.html#configuring

There you'll see that you need two things to get CGI working: Options
ExecCGI and the cgi-script handler.  ScriptAlias does both of these things
for you, but if you don't want to use ScriptAlias, you'll need to do them
both yourself.

>
> The reason I bring this up is due to the nature of the CGI executeable.
> It is placing files in a sub-directory (cgi-bin/attachements), which I
> want to give users access to.

Here are two options:

1:
<Directory /path/to/cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI
# Add whatever extensions you want to executed:
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
</Directory>

2:
<Directory /path/to/cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI
Sethandler cgi-script
</Directory>
<Directory /path/to/cgi-bin/sub-directory>
Sethandler default-handler
</Directory>

Joshua.

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