[wplug] apache config for html file upload forms. (resolved)

[John Harrold]

Sometime in September John Harrold assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Hey,
| 
| I've got apache running (Debian/Sarge), and some of my CGI scripts are not
| working correctly. Specifically some file upload forms are not working. So
| when I try to upload a file, I'm unable to access the file handle (in
| perl). This seems to have occurred when I moved the scripts from a RedHat
| server to Debian, so I was wondering if there was anything squirrely, wrt
| the default apache configuration that comes with debian, that I might not
| be aware of. I have mod_cgi installed and working, so the scripts work with
| the exception of the file upload form.

For the purposes of completeness:

Eventually some nice individual emailed me. It turns out that the
'$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS' variable is true by default on Debian while it was
false on Redhat. Placing the following at the top of my perl script:

$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 0;  

seemed to fix all my problems. Of course it's in the perldoc for CGI.pm ---
yeah I'm a dork. 

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