At 05:15 PM 07/16/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I have apache set up on a Linux machine running Redhat 7.1 (local home
>network). The install (from rpm) placed the directories as follows:
>
>/var/www/html
>/var/www/cgi-bin
>/var/www/icons
>
>I can point a browser to 192.168.xxx.xxx and I am taken to the /var/www/html
>directory and the file index.html is displayed showing that the apache
>install went ok. I can replace that index.html file with another (or edit
>the original) to include a link to a script in the cgi-bin directory which
>is executed with the URL shown as
>http://192.168.xxx.xxx/cgi-bin/perlfile.cgi.
>
>However I can't point the browser to http://192.168.xxx.xxx//cgi-bin
>directly to execute a script.
>
>Any idea what is going on I appear to have the same permissions in both
>directories.
I have to say i'm a bit surprised that you haven't received the right
answer to this question yet :P
This is almost certainly an Apache configuration issue, specifically with
the ScriptAlias directive in your httpd.conf file. IIRC, with recent
versions of Apache, you must *explicitly* configure the httpd to allow
ExecCGI (for security reasons).
This is covered very well in the Apache server docs/faq at
http://httpd.apache.org/
HTH...Aloha,
mel
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