also sprach Mike Millner (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 08:35:17PM -0700): > your saying every cgi script needs to have - out put "Content-type: > text/html" and then an empty line
yes, by definition, a CGI script *must* start by writing Content-type: text/html\r\n <or text/plain or whatever> \r\n <html><head><title>yadayadayada</..... this is to let the webserver know what content to serve. > The apache daemon wouldn't start with the scriptalias in the http.conf file > and could you please clarify the statement below. I don't understand the > "Options" of the directory here's an extract from my httpd.conf: ScriptAlias /cgi-pub/ "/home/apache/common/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/home/apache/common/cgi-bin"> Options ExecCGI AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> read up on the Options clause at www.apache.org! martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "if I can't dance, i don't want to be part of your revolution." - emma goldman