[lug] Apache CGI's and Redhat

[D. Stimits]

Greg Horne wrote:
> 
> Ok, Here goes.  I have been working on a problem on my machine for a few
> days now.  I am using Apache 1.3.3 on Redhat 7.0 with kernel 2.4.5.  I have
> allowed .cgi access in this way:
> -------------------------------------
> snippet from: httpd.conf
> -------------------------------------
> AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl
> 
> Alias /cgi-bin/ "/home/www/*/html/cgi-bin/"
> 
> <Directory "/cgi-bin/">
>     AllowOverride None
>     Options ExecCGI
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
> 
> <Virtualhost blah.blah.blah.blah>
> ServerAdmin blah at schmack.com
> DocumentRoot /home/www/test/html
> ServerName blah.blah.blah.blah
> ErrorLog blah
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/www/test/html/cgi-bin/"
> </VirtualHost>
> -------------------------------------
> 
> With this I can execute any *.cgi files.  The problem is I can't execute
> anything else that is in the directory like *.pl or I get an "Error 500
> Interal Server Problem, premature end of script headers".  At the top of the
> scripts I am pointing the the directory that contains perl, which I verified
> by finding it myself. Eg. #!/usr/bin/perl

Try renaming it to .cgi. I think your script is set to only allow .cgi
extensions. 

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> If anybody can help me I would be very thankful.  Like I said I have been at
> this for a while, and found a lot of message boards to be of no use.  Thanks
> in advance.
> 
> Greg
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