Do you have this statement included in your conf file for the CGI directory?
<Directory /what_ever_your_cgi_dir_is> Options +ExecCGI </Directory> Cheers, Igor On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Matthew Pettis <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > Newbie here -- my Apache2 install is downloading the .pl script I have > instead of executing it as a CGI. How do I make it work as a CGI? > > As a secondary note -- is there a really good resource to understand how > the apache conf files work? I see the apache documentation, but am having > trouble getting some documentation on the big picture, answering questions > like how to read and understand the conf file, what the general format is, > and what is meant when things have 'allow,deny', etc. in them? > > Thanks, > Matt >
