While I've never run things from /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin/somethinghere.cgi, we've always had to recompile suexec to get things working.
suexec has hard-compiled in the allowed directory, so you'd need to recompile that to get some other directory to work. I suggest you try that. Sincerely, Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Elder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marcel Hicking" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 5:36 AM Subject: Re: Apache cgi-bin for users > Thanks Marcel, > > Let me restate what it was I was asking just to clarify my situation. > If anyone has any input, by all means annie up. > > What I am trying to do is setup the server so users in /home/*/ can > execute CGI programs on their personal web pages on this particular machine. I found a reference in the apache admin guide I have and the apache site which say to put the following in the httpd.conf: > > <Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin> > Options ExecCGI > Addhandler cgi-script .cgi .pl > </Directory> > > I have done that, but I still cannot make the following work: > > http://yourdomain.com/~username/cgi-bin/test.cgi > > When this page is run, I get "premature end of headers" in the error.log > file. I thought this would be fairly simple but it is turning out to be > a headache. > > Anything else I can try? > > Keith > > > * Marcel Hicking ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > From: "Marcel Hicking" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org > > Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:08:32 +0100 > > Subject: Re: Apache cgi-bin for users > > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) > > > > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /path/to/customers/cgi-bin/ > > > > See > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_alias.html#scriptalias > > > > Please make really(!) sure what security implications it > > has to allow not trustworthy people (customers ;-) to run > > programms on _your_ server. Hint: Look for cgi-wrap and > > changeroot. > > > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/security_tips.html > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/suexec.html > > or better > > http://wwwcgi.umr.edu/~cgiwrap/ > > > > Cheers, > > Marcel > > > > > > Keith Elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 31 Dec 2001, at 17:31: > > > > > Greetings and Happy New Year! > > > > > > I am trying to enable cgi-bin on user directories. I found > > > the following lines on the apache.org site, put them in, but > > > they didn't work: > > > > > > <Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin> > > > Options ExecCGI > > > SetHandler cgi-script > > > </Directory> > > > > > > > > > Any other suggestions as to how to setup cgi-bin directories > > > for user accounts? > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Keith > > > > > > ####################################################### > > > Keith Elder > > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Phone: 1-734-507-1438 > > > Text Messaging (145 characters): [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Web: http://www.zorka.com (Howto's, News, and hosting!) > > > > > > "With enough memory and hard drive space > > > anything in life is possible!" > > > ####################################################### > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > > __ > > .´ `. > > : :' ! Enjoy > > `. `´ Debian/GNU Linux > > `- > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ####################################################### > Keith Elder > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: 1-734-507-1438 > Text Messaging (145 characters): [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.zorka.com (Howto's, News, and hosting!) > > "With enough memory and hard drive space > anything in life is possible!" > ####################################################### > http://www.zentek-international.com > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
