This is only useful if you have scripts in /usr/lib/cgi-bin that you actually use. Look in that directory and see if anything there looks familiar. If not, you can remove that safely too.
- Y On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 9:01 PM, John Fisher GM <john.fisher...@gmail.com> wrote: > A second question... > > Again, running Apache 2.2 with Debian 7. Trying to simplify all the vhost > config files. > > In the sites-available files, there is the following code: > > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ >> >> <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin"> >> AllowOverride None >> Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch >> Order allow,deny >> Allow from all >> </Directory> >> > > Same question, is this necessary? Can I delete it? > > Most of our older sites are simple. Some go back to 1995 with hand-coded > html. I gather this is for perl only. > > On one of our older sites, it has perhaps ten simple html pages. But we > are running an old perl script (Accesswatch). I can't seem to access > mysite.com/cgi-bin/ -- in the old days I seem to remember one could do > that. > > So if I remove this code, would my perl script die, or would everything > explode? > > Thank you. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
