cgi handler issue

[JahDW]

What I'm looking for is a simple handler for an HTML form I've created. I've found one I'd like to play with (mail_form_win.pl), but I can't get it to work at all. I keep getting the following error no matter what the cgi or pl file is:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /first.cgi on this server.
Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) Server at localhost Port 80

both files I've tried have permissions set to everyone, full control.

I'm running Apache on Windows XP... NOT UNIX! so I can't chmod.

Help!!

 

[Wishdiak]

JahDW,

The problem here looks to be CGI execution rather than file permissions.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/cgi.html

Wishdiak
A+, Network+, Security+, MCSA: Security 2003

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[tchatzi]

What is your configuration for cgi-bin in your httpd.conf file?

Can you show us how do you call this script(first.cgi)? And can you show us the code of this script?

What does the mail_form_win.pl do? Show its code too.


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