[101142] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Activation of scripts on the web server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred W. Noltie Jr.)
Tue Nov 24 20:33:09 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:31:52 -0600 (EST)
From: "Fred W. Noltie Jr." <fred@usinternet.com>
Reply-To: criterion-consulting@usinternet.com
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19981124192716.00f48314@pop.microtec.net>
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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 aromes@microtec.net wrote:
#Hi,
#Another question about using CGI with my apache web server.
#I think it's not a question of putting a CGI-script in /cgi-bin directory.
#I should activate it also. Does "activate it" just mean to give it
#executable permissions?? What could "activate a cgi script" also means??
#
It needs to be world-readable and world-executable (run 'chmod 755
scriptname' where scriptname is the name of your script), and it needs
to be in a directory that Apache recognizes and treats as a CGI
directory. By default on Red Hat, /home/httpd/cgi-bin/ is one, and you
can set up others.
Fred
"The road to tyranny, we must never forget,
is the destruction of the truth." -- Bill Clinton,
15 Oct 1995 speech at the University of Connecticut
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