Charles Stack on Sun, 12 Dec 1999 10:48:27 -0500 (EST)


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RE: [Plug] Anybody know how...


The cause of my difficulties as an improper permission setting on
/home/httpd.  I also had to set the handler for cgi.  Once done, things were
perfectly.

Thanks again,

Charles

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[mailto:plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net]On Behalf Of Kyle Burton
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 4:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [Plug] Anybody know how...


Oh, and add index.cgi as one of the default files -- like index.html,
index.php3, etc...

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On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Kyle Burton wrote:

> You need to enable .cgi as a CGI extension in your webserver's
configuration.
> Also, make sure you can run it from the command line...
>
> k
>
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> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Charles Stack wrote:
>
> > to execute a cgi script named index.cgi that resides in the html root
> > directory.
> >
> > I'm running Apache 1.3.9 and can't seem to figure out what I must do to
call
> > the cgi program when the a URL of the following type executed.  I've
read
> > the documentation but can seem to figure it out.
> >
> > http://www.mydomain.com
> >
> > I've got a perl script that needs to execute to direct a user to the
> > appropriate directory (i.e. we have our website in three formats:
highband,
> > lowband, and textonly).  Ultimately, the script generates a simple
dynamic
> > document with a cookie and Location header pointing to an index.html
page in
> > the proper directory.
> >
> > BTW, if I execute http://www.mydomain.com/index.cgi all works fine.  If
I
> > execute http://www.mydomain.com, I get the text of my script.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Charles
> >
> >
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