[lug] apache config for cgi virtual host

[Peter Hutnick]

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On Thursday 18 April 2002 06:31 am, Elyse Grasso wrote:
> I get messages of "You don't have permission to access / on this server."
> Tried a couple of variations of the path in the Action line without
> improving things.

That's because there is no index file in that dir, and auto-indexing is 
disabled.

You might be able to add sqwebmail to your list of indexes.

I've never used sqwebmail ('Cause SquirrelMail is where it is at.  Perl CGI, 
how late 20th century!) but I'd bet that they have some standard method for 
"indexing" it.  I'd check with them.  I'd say check the FAQ, /but they don't 
have one/!

What I am saying is that I think you are mixing two issues.  1. How to get 
sqwebmail to run with a URL that ends in a "/" and 2. How to configure 
virtual hosting.  You seem to have actually accomplished 2, so now 
indexifying the cgi binary is the trick.

> > > My boss wants to be able to type
> > > http://mail.releaseteam.com
> > > instead of
> > > http://mail.releaseteam.com/cgi-bin/sqwebmail
> > >
> > > do I need to create an index.html for mail.releaseteam.com to call the
>
> cgi?

You may not get points for being a super-fly Apache guru, but you could 
probably enable symbolic links on [document root]/ and "ln -s 
[cgi-bin]/sqwebmail [document root]/index.html

You might even go as far as to ask about this on the sqwebmail list, where 
they have undoubtedly solved this problem in the past and can offer more than 
idle speculation.

- -Peter

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