apache/ cgi-bin/ httpd.conf ......???????????

[kickinpretty]

hi all

i have just set up a mandrake linux 8.2 box to act as my web server the apache web server is running fine, i have placed a cgi file in my default cgi bin in var/www/ but get a forbidden access denied page when calling the cgi file from my browser.

Having looked at a few of the posts on here i am none the wiser, i understand i need to do something in the httpd.conf file to allow running of cgi scripts but cant see anything that remotely looks like addhandler etc amongst the code!

is the httpd.conf file in etc//http/conf ?

or is this the wrong directory?

if this is the correct file to be editing, where exactly do i have to add code and what code do i need to add to allow the use of cgi scripts?????

thanks for any help offered in advance:-((

 

[Newposter]

As to the httpd.conf, I'm not familiar with the unix/linux paths, but you should have the following in your file, to point to the actual path, to set permissions and to define the file type:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "D:/apache/cgi-bin/"

<Directory &quot;D:/apache/cgi-bin&quot;>
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl


Have you installed PERL, which you need to run scripts? If not, download and install the newest version of Active State PERL. Make sure the first line of your cgi file has the command path:

#!/usr/bin/perl Newposter
&quot;Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.&quot;

 

[RhythmAce]

You might try /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Some distros use more than one .conf file but they will be in the same directory as httpd.conf and the name kind of tells you what is configured in each. If you are using the default cgi-bin, it may be in /var/

http://www/cgi-bin.

In /var/www/ you should also see /html. This is your DocumentRoot. It is where you will put all you web pages. This is not the same as the ServerRoot which is usually /etc/httpd/. Double check these paths and make sure that they are correct in httpd.conf. Getting back to your problem, if you are using the default cgi-bin and your script is in that dir, then the problem is in the permissions. If you copied the script into that dir as root then the owner and group is root. You will need to change the owner and group with chown or change the permissions with chmod.

 

[kickinpretty]

hi

thanks for your replys...i have now sussed out that the file to edit is the commanhttpd.conf file...i have done as requested and changed a few things to allow cgi...now im getting an internal server error 500 page when calling hello.pl from a web browser, it works fine from a command line. could you please check out the commanhttpd.conf file for any mistakes that i may have made whilst editing the file, all of the folders and files in my web directory have been given 777 permissions whilst testing so i dont think its anything to do with this....

my commonhttpd.conf file.......

### Common server configuration
#
User apache
Group apache

#
# ServerAdmin: Your address, where problems with the server should be
# e-mailed. This address appears on some server-generated pages, such
# as error documents.
#
ServerAdmin root@localhost

# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
# DO NOT MODIFY THIS ONE, USE httpd.conf and httpd-perl.conf
#DocumentRoot /var/

http://www/html

#
# Each directory to which Apache has access, can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the &quot;default&quot; to be a very restrictive set of
# permissions.
#
# Also, for security, we disable indexes globally
#
#<Directory />
# Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
# AllowOverride None
#</Directory>

#Restricted set of options
<Directory />
Options -All -Multiviews
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>


#
# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as
# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
# below.
#


#
# UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.
#
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir public_html
</IfModule>


#
# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML
# directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces.
#
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi
index.pl index.htm Default.htm default.htm
</IfModule>

#
# AccessFileName: The name of the file to look for in each directory
# for access control information.
#
AccessFileName .htaccess

#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess files from being viewed by
# Web clients. Since .htaccess files often contain authorization
# information, access is disallowed for security reasons. Comment
# these lines out if you want Web visitors to see the contents of
# .htaccess files. If you change the AccessFileName directive above,
# be sure to make the corresponding changes here.
#
# Also, folks tend to use names such as .htpasswd for password
# files, so this will protect those as well.
#
<Files ~ &quot;^\.ht&quot;>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

#
# CacheNegotiatedDocs: By default, Apache sends &quot;Pragma: no-cache&quot; with each
# document that was negotiated on the basis of content. This asks proxy
# servers not to cache the document. Uncommenting the following line disables
# this behavior, and proxies will be allowed to cache the documents.
#
#CacheNegotiatedDocs

#
# UseCanonicalName: (new for 1.3) With this setting turned on, whenever
# Apache needs to construct a self-referencing URL (a URL that refers back
# to the server the response is coming from) it will use ServerName and
# Port to form a &quot;canonical&quot; name. With this setting off, Apache will
# use the hostnameort that the client supplied, when possible. This
# also affects SERVER_NAME and SERVER_PORT in CGI scripts.
#
UseCanonicalName On

#
# TypesConfig describes where the mime.types file (or equivalent) is
# to be found.
#
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
TypesConfig conf/apache-mime.types
</IfModule>

#
# DefaultType is the default MIME type the server will use for a document
# if it cannot otherwise determine one, such as from filename extensions.
# If your server contains mostly text or HTML documents, &quot;text/plain&quot; is
# a good value. If most of your content is binary, such as applications
# or images, you may want to use &quot;application/octet-stream&quot; instead to
# keep browsers from trying to display binary files as though they are
# text.
#
DefaultType application/octet-stream

#
# The mod_mime_magic module allows the server to use various hints from the
# contents of the file itself to determine its type. The MIMEMagicFile
# directive tells the module where the hint definitions are located.
# mod_mime_magic is not part of the default server (you have to add
# it yourself with a LoadModule [see the DSO paragraph in the 'Global
# Environment' section], or recompile the server and include mod_mime_magic
# as part of the configuration), so it's enclosed in an <IfModule> container.
# This means that the MIMEMagicFile directive will only be processed if the
# module is part of the server.
#
<IfModule mod_mime_magic.c>
MIMEMagicFile conf/magic
</IfModule>

#
# HostnameLookups: Log the names of clients or just their IP addresses
# e.g.,

http://www.apache.org

(on) or 204.62.129.132 (off).
# The default is off because it'd be overall better for the net if people
# had to knowingly turn this feature on, since enabling it means that
# each client request will result in AT LEAST one lookup request to the
# nameserver.
#
HostnameLookups Off

# The following directives define some format nicknames for use with
# a CustomLog directive (see below).
#
LogFormat &quot;%h %l %u %t \&quot;%r\&quot; %>s %b \&quot;%{Referer}i\&quot; \&quot;%{User-Agent}i\&quot;&quot;
combined
LogFormat &quot;%h %l %u %t \&quot;%r\&quot; %>s %b&quot; common
LogFormat &quot;%{Referer}i -> %U&quot; referer
LogFormat &quot;%{User-agent}i&quot; agent
LogFormat &quot;%v %h %l %u %t \&quot;%r\&quot; %>s %b %T&quot; script
LogFormat &quot;%v %h %l %u %t \&quot;%r\&quot; %>s %b \&quot;%{Referer}i\&quot; \&quot;%{User-Agent}i\&quot;
VLOG=%{VLOG}e&quot; vhost

#
# The location and format of the access logfile (Common Logfile Format).
#CustomLog logs/access_log common

#
# If you would like to have agent and referer logfiles, uncomment the
# following directives.
#
#CustomLog logs/referer_log referer
#CustomLog logs/agent_log agent

#
# If you prefer a single logfile with access, agent, and referer information
# (Combined Logfile Format) you can use the following directive.
#
#CustomLog logs/access_log combined

#
# Optionally add a line containing the server version and virtual host
# name to server-generated pages (error documents, FTP directory listings,
# mod_status and mod_info output etc., but not CGI generated documents).
# Set to &quot;EMail&quot; to also include a mailto: link to the ServerAdmin.
# Set to one of: On | Off | EMail
#
ServerSignature On

#
# Aliases: Add here as many aliases as you need (with no limit). The format
is
# Alias fakename realname
#
<IfModule mod_alias.c>

#
# Note that if you include a trailing / on fakename then the server will
# require it to be present in the URL. So &quot;/icons&quot; isn't aliased in this
# example, only &quot;/icons/&quot;..
#
Alias /icons/ /var/

http://www/icons/

Alias /doc /usr/share/doc


#
# ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
# ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
# documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and
# run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the
client.
# The same rules about trailing &quot;/&quot; apply to ScriptAlias directives as to
# Alias.
#
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/

http://www/cgi-bin/

<IfModule mod_perl.c>
#Provide two aliases to the same cgi-bin directory,
#to see the effects of the 2 different mod_perl modes
#for Apache::Registry Mode
Alias /perl/ /var/

http://www/perl/

#for Apache:erlrun Mode
Alias /cgi-perl/ /var/

http://www/perl/

</IfModule>


</IfModule>
# End of aliases.

#
# Redirect allows you to tell clients about documents which used to exist in
# your server's namespace, but do not anymore. This allows you to tell the
# clients where to look for the relocated document.
# Format: Redirect old-URI new-URL
#

#
# Directives controlling the display of server-generated directory listings.
#
<IfModule mod_autoindex.c>

#
# FancyIndexing is whether you want fancy directory indexing or standard
#
IndexOptions FancyIndexing

#
# AddIcon* directives tell the server which icon to show for different
# files or filename extensions. These are only displayed for
# FancyIndexed directories.
#
AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip

AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif) text/*
AddIconByType (IMG,/icons/image2.gif) image/*
AddIconByType (SND,/icons/sound2.gif) audio/*
AddIconByType (VID,/icons/movie.gif) video/*

AddIcon /icons/binary.gif .bin .exe
AddIcon /icons/binhex.gif .hqx
AddIcon /icons/tar.gif .tar
AddIcon /icons/world2.gif .wrl .wrl.gz .vrml .vrm .iv
AddIcon /icons/compressed.gif .Z .z .tgz .gz .zip .bz2
AddIcon /icons/a.gif .ps .ai .eps
AddIcon /icons/layout.gif .html .shtml .htm .pdf
AddIcon /icons/text.gif .txt
AddIcon /icons/c.gif .c
AddIcon /icons/p.gif .pl .py .php .php3
AddIcon /icons/f.gif .for
AddIcon /icons/dvi.gif .dvi
AddIcon /icons/uuencoded.gif .uu
AddIcon /icons/script.gif .conf .sh .shar .csh .ksh .tcl
AddIcon /icons/tex.gif .tex
AddIcon /icons/bomb.gif core

AddIcon /icons/back.gif ..
AddIcon /icons/hand.right.gif README
AddIcon /icons/folder.gif ^^DIRECTORY^^
AddIcon /icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^

#
# DefaultIcon is which icon to show for files which do not have an icon
# explicitly set.
#
DefaultIcon /icons/unknown.gif

#
# AddDescription allows you to place a short description after a file in
# server-generated indexes. These are only displayed for FancyIndexed
# directories.
# Format: AddDescription &quot;description&quot; filename
#
#AddDescription &quot;GZIP compressed document&quot; .gz
#AddDescription &quot;tar archive&quot; .tar
#AddDescription &quot;GZIP compressed tar archive&quot; .tgz

#
# ReadmeName is the name of the README file the server will look for by
# default, and append to directory listings.
#
# HeaderName is the name of a file which should be prepended to
# directory indexes.
#
# If MultiViews are amongst the Options in effect, the server will
# first look for name.html and include it if found. If name.html
# doesn't exist, the server will then look for name.txt and include
# it as plaintext if found.
#
ReadmeName README
HeaderName HEADER

#
# IndexIgnore is a set of filenames which directory indexing should ignore
# and not include in the listing. Shell-style wildcarding is permitted.
#
IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* RCS CVS *,v *,t

</IfModule>
# End of indexing directives.

#
# Document types.
#
<IfModule mod_mime.c>

#
# AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers (Mosaic/X 2.1+)
uncompress
# information on the fly. Note: Not all browsers support this.
# Despite the name similarity, the following Add* directives have nothing
# to do with the FancyIndexing customization directives above.
#
AddEncoding x-compress Z
AddEncoding x-gzip gz tgz

#
# AddLanguage allows you to specify the language of a document. You can
# then use content negotiation to give a browser a file in a language
# it can understand.
#
# Note 1: The suffix does not have to be the same as the language
# keyword --- those with documents in Polish (whose net-standard
# language code is pl) may wish to use &quot;AddLanguage pl .po&quot; to
# avoid the ambiguity with the common suffix for perl scripts.
#
# Note 2: The example entries below illustrate that in quite
# some cases the two character 'Language' abbreviation is not
# identical to the two character 'Country' code for its country,
# E.g. 'Danmark/dk' versus 'Danish/da'.
#
# Note 3: In the case of 'ltz' we violate the RFC by using a three char
# specifier. But there is 'work in progress' to fix this and get
# the reference data for rfc1766 cleaned up.
#
# Danish (da) - Dutch (nl) - English (en) - Estonian (ee)
# French (fr) - German (de) - Greek-Modern (el)
# Italian (it) - Korean (kr) - Norwegian (no)
# Portugese (pt) - Luxembourgeois* (ltz)
# Spanish (es) - Swedish (sv) - Catalan (ca) - Czech(cz)
# Polish (pl) - Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br) - Japanese (ja)
# Russian (ru)
#
AddLanguage da .dk
AddLanguage nl .nl
AddLanguage en .en
AddLanguage et .ee
AddLanguage fr .fr
AddLanguage de .de
AddLanguage el .el
AddLanguage he .he
AddCharset ISO-8859-8 .iso8859-8
AddLanguage it .it
AddLanguage ja .ja
AddCharset ISO-2022-JP .jis
AddLanguage kr .kr
AddCharset ISO-2022-KR .iso-kr
AddLanguage no .no
AddLanguage pl .po
AddCharset ISO-8859-2 .iso-pl
AddLanguage pt .pt
AddLanguage pt-br .pt-br
AddLanguage ltz .lu
AddLanguage ca .ca
AddLanguage es .es
AddLanguage sv .se
AddLanguage cz .cz
AddLanguage ru .ru
AddLanguage zh-tw .tw
AddLanguage tw .tw
AddCharset Big5 .Big5 .big5
AddCharset WINDOWS-1251 .cp-1251
AddCharset CP866 .cp866
AddCharset ISO-8859-5 .iso-ru
AddCharset KOI8-R .koi8-r
AddCharset UCS-2 .ucs2
AddCharset UCS-4 .ucs4
AddCharset UTF-8 .utf8

# LanguagePriority allows you to give precedence to some languages
# in case of a tie during content negotiation.
#
# Just list the languages in decreasing order of preference. We have
# more or less alphabetized them here. You probably want to change this.
#
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
LanguagePriority en fr de es it da nl et el ja kr no pl pt pt-br ru
ltz ca sv tw
</IfModule>

#
# AddType allows you to tweak mime.types without actually editing it, or
to
# make certain files to be certain types.
#
# For example, the PHP 3.x module (not part of the Apache distribution -
see
#

http://www.php.net)

will typically use:
#
#AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
#AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps
#
# And for PHP 4.x, use:
#
#AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
#AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

AddType application/x-tar .tgz

#
# AddHandler allows you to map certain file extensions to &quot;handlers&quot;,
# actions unrelated to filetype. These can be either built into the server
# or added with the Action command (see below)
#
# If you want to use server side includes, or CGI outside
# ScriptAliased directories, uncomment the following lines.
#
# To use CGI scripts:

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi.pl

#
# To use server-parsed HTML files
#
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

#
# Uncomment the following line to enable Apache's send-asis HTTP file
# feature
#
#AddHandler send-as-is asis

#
# If you wish to use server-parsed imagemap files, use
#
AddHandler imap-file map

#
# To enable type maps, you might want to use
#
#AddHandler type-map var

</IfModule>
# End of document types.

#
# Action lets you define media types that will execute a script whenever
# a matching file is called. This eliminates the need for repeated URL
# pathnames for oft-used CGI file processors.
# Format: Action media/type /cgi-script/location
# Format: Action handler-name /cgi-script/location
#

#
# MetaDir: specifies the name of the directory in which Apache can find
# meta information files. These files contain additional HTTP headers
# to include when sending the document
#
#MetaDir .web

#
# MetaSuffix: specifies the file name suffix for the file containing the
# meta information.
#
#MetaSuffix .meta

#
# Customizable error response (Apache style)
# these come in three flavors
#
# 1) plain text
#ErrorDocument 500 &quot;The server made a boo boo.
# n.b. the single leading (&quot marks it as text, it does not get output
#
# 2) local redirects
#ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
# to redirect to local URL /missing.html
#ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/missing_handler.pl
# N.B.: You can redirect to a script or a document using
server-side-includes.
#
# 3) external redirects
#ErrorDocument 402

http://some.other_server.com/subscription_info.html

# N.B.: Many of the environment variables associated with the original
# request will *not* be available to such a script.

<Location /manual>
Options Multiviews
ErrorDocument 404 &quot;The document you requested has not been installed on your
system. Please install the apache-manual package.
</Location>


#
# Customize behaviour based on the browser
#
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>

#
# The following directives modify normal HTTP response behavior.
# The first directive disables keepalive for Netscape 2.x and browsers
that
# spoof it. There are known problems with these browser implementations.
# The second directive is for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0b2
# which has a broken HTTP/1.1 implementation and does not properly
# support keepalive when it is used on 301 or 302 (redirect) responses.
#
BrowserMatch &quot;Mozilla/2&quot; nokeepalive
BrowserMatch &quot;MSIE 4\.0b2;&quot; nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

#
# The following directive disables HTTP/1.1 responses to browsers which
# are in violation of the HTTP/1.0 spec by not being able to grok a
# basic 1.1 response.
#
BrowserMatch &quot;RealPlayer 4\.0&quot; force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch &quot;Java/1\.0&quot; force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch &quot;JDK/1\.0&quot; force-response-1.0

</IfModule>
# End of browser customization directives

#
# Allow server status reports, with the URL of

http://servername/server-status

# Change the &quot;.your_domain.com&quot; to match your domain to enable.
#
<IfModule mod_status.c>
<Location /server-status>
SetHandler server-status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
allow from 127.0.0.1
#Allow from .your_domain.com
</Location>
#
# ExtendedStatus controls whether Apache will generate &quot;full&quot; status
# information (ExtendedStatus On) or just basic information (ExtendedStatus
# Off) when the &quot;server-status&quot; handler is called. The default is Off.
#
#ExtendedStatus On
</IfModule>

#
# Allow remote server configuration reports, with the URL of
#

http://servername/server-info

(requires that mod_info.c be loaded).
# Change the &quot;.your_domain.com&quot; to match your domain to enable.
#
<IfModule mod_info.c>
<Location /server-info>
SetHandler server-info
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from .your_domain.com
</Location>
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_perl.c>
<Location /perl-status>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Location>
</IfModule>

#
# There have been reports of people trying to abuse an old bug from pre-1.1
# days. This bug involved a CGI script distributed as a part of Apache.
# By uncommenting these lines you can redirect these attacks to a logging
# script on phf.apache.org. Or, you can record them yourself, using the
script
# support/phf_abuse_log.cgi.
#
#<Location /cgi-bin/phf*>
# Deny from all
# ErrorDocument 403

http://phf.apache.org/phf_abuse_log.cgi

#</Location>

#
# Proxy Server directives. Uncomment the following lines to
# enable the proxy server:
#
#<IfModule mod_proxy.c>
# ProxyRequests On

# <Directory proxy:*>
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# Allow from .your_domain.com
# </Directory>

#
# Enable/disable the handling of HTTP/1.1 &quot;Via:&quot; headers.
# (&quot;Full&quot; adds the server version; &quot;Block&quot; removes all outgoing Via:
headers)
# Set to one of: Off | On | Full | Block
#
# ProxyVia On

#
# To enable the cache as well, edit and uncomment the following lines:
# (no cacheing without CacheRoot)
#
# CacheRoot /var/cache/httpd
# CacheSize 5
# CacheGcInterval 4
# CacheMaxExpire 24
# CacheLastModifiedFactor 0.1
# CacheDefaultExpire 1
# NoCache a_domain.com another_domain.edu joes.garage_sale.com

#</IfModule>
# End of proxy directives.

<IfModule mod_dav.c>
# DavLockDB /var/lock/DAVLock
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_include.c>
# XBitHack on
</IfModule>


#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory /var/

http://www/html>

#
# This may also be &quot;None&quot;, &quot;All&quot;, or any combination of &quot;Indexes&quot;,
# &quot;Includes&quot;, &quot;FollowSymLinks&quot;, &quot;ExecCGI&quot;, or &quot;MultiViews&quot;.
#
# Note that &quot;MultiViews&quot; must be named *explicitly* --- &quot;Options All&quot;
# doesn't give it to you.
#
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

#
# This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
# override. Can also be &quot;All&quot;, or any combination of &quot;Options&quot;, &quot;FileInfo&quot;,
# &quot;AuthConfig&quot;, and &quot;Limit&quot;
#
AllowOverride All

#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory /var/

http://www/perl>

AllowOverride All
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory /var/

http://www/cgi-bin/>

AllowOverride All
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>


#
# Control access to UserDir directories. The following is an example
# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
#
#<Directory /home/*/public_html>
# AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
# Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
# <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
# Order allow,deny
# Allow from all
# </Limit>
# <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# </LimitExcept>
#</Directory>

# These settings are pretty flexible, and allow for Frontpage and XSSI
<Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride All
Options MultiViews -Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI -Includes -Indexes
SetHandler cgi-script
</Directory>


<IfModule mod_perl.c>
<Directory /home/*/public_html/perl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache:erlRun
Options -Indexes ExecCGI
PerlSendHeader On
</Directory>
</IfModule>

<Directory /var/

http://www/icons>

Options -Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share/doc>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
#allow from .your_domain.com
</Directory>

<Directory /var/

http://www/html/addon-modules>

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Directory>

<Location /index.shtml>
Options +Includes
</Location>

<IfModule mod_perl.c>
PerlModule Apache::Registry

#set Apache::Registry Mode for /perl Alias
<Location /perl/*.pl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
Options -Indexes ExecCGI
PerlSendHeader On
</Location>

#set Apache:erlRun Mode for /cgi-perl Alias
<Location /cgi-perl/*.pl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache:erlRun
Options -Indexes ExecCGI
PerlSendHeader On
</Location>
</IfModule>



All suggestions greatly appreciated))

 

[RhythmAce]

This is what you need to get cgi to work in your cgi-bin. It looks like you have it all but the ScriptAlias is not where I would expect it to be but that should net be a problem. You are also missing quotes around the paths but then again, if it works on your system, I would bother with it.

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ &quot;/var/

http://www/cgi-bin/&quot;

<Directory &quot;/var/

http://www/cgi-bin&quot;>

AllowOverride None
Options All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

If you change the name of your script to hello.cgi will it work? If so the problem could be in this line:

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi.pl

This was copied and pasted from your file and there is no space between the .cgi and .pl

 

[kickinpretty]

hi again

ok i have tried your suggestions above but still it isnt working (error 500) again!! looking in my error.log the output is this ...

malformed header from script. Bad header-this is my first perl script: /var/

http://www/cgi-bin/hello.pl

any ideas?

Better still has anybody got a correctly configured commonhttpd.file that they can post on here that is working so that i can debug my own code!!!

 

[danielhozac]

That means that the script you are using isn't written for the web. Your script needs to return at least a Content-type header. The beginning of the script should look like this:
#!/path/to/perl

print &quot;Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n&quot;;
which prints the Content-type header. //Daniel

 

[kickinpretty]

hi

got it working now thanks very much to all that helped me out, its good to know that help is at hand

No doubt i wll be posting again soon when i try a little bit of php and xml out...lol