[wplug] executing perl cgi scripts with apache2 on debian

[Poyner, Brandon]

I think you're using <Location> when you should be using <Directory>.
That or change the <Location> to match the URL.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#location

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer II
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086


-----Original Message-----
From: John Harrold [mailto:jmh17 at pitt.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:24 AM
To: western PA LUG
Subject: [wplug] executing perl cgi scripts with apache2 on debian


I've recently moved our webserver over to debian from redhat and I
cannot
for the life of me get it to execute our cgi scripts. I created a test
script to figure things out. The test script looks like

<script file_name=/tmp/perltest/myfile.pl>
#! /usr/bin/perl

 use strict;
 use warnings;

 use CGI qw/:standard/;
 use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

 print header,
     start_html('A Simple Example'),
     h1('A Simple Example'),
</script>

And in /etc/apache2/conf.d/mainsite I added

 <Location /tmp/perltest>
   Options All
   AllowOverride All
   AddHandler cgi-script .pl
 </Location>
 ScriptAliasMatch ^/perltest/
"/tmp/perltest/myfile.pl"
 ScriptAliasMatch ^/perltest
"/tmp/perltest/myfile.pl"

Now whenever I try to access the script with a browser

http://site/perltest/

the web server returns something with a mime type 'test/x-perl'. I can
execute
te perl script from the command line as the webservers user. I seem to
recall
that the path to the script and the script must have permissions 0755,
so I
made sure that was correct. I still cannot get apache to execute our
scripts.
Can anyone offer any advice here?


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