cgi problem

[ThinkGeekness]

I am now trying to get cgi to work with Apache 1.3 (on RHL 7.3) and here is what I have done so far:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/httpd/domain/cgi-bin"

<Directory &quot;/home/httpd/domain/cgi-bin&quot;>
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow, deny
Allow from All
</Directory>

AddHandeler cgi-script .cgi .pl

And I have also done chmod 755 cgi-bin to the cgi-bin folder.

The error message that I get when I go to

http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin

is:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this server.

And if I go to

http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/script.pl

I get a 404 error.

Do I have to have a specific user and group? Right now for Apache, I have nobody for the user and group and I have that also for the cgi-bin folder.

If this helps, I logged on as root on my Apache server and went to:

http://localhost.localdomain/cgi-bin

and I also get the Forbidden error.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[ThinkGeekness]

Something to add:

I spelt AddHandler right in httpd.conf, just not in the last post.

I have made a new cgi-bin folder (called cgi) and set the ScriptAlias, permission to 755, and the Document (in apache) and I get the forbidden error.

Also, even if I dont put anything in the cgi-bin folder, I still get the forbidden message, not an index of page.

 

[RhythmAce]

The default user and group is 'apache' for RH 7.3 version apache. If your changed it to 'nobody', you may want to be sure there is a user and group 'nobody' on your system.

 

[ThinkGeekness]

Thanks for the suggestion, I just changed the user and group in the httpd.conf file to 'apache' and I changed it for the folder also, but I am still getting the Forbidden error.

Thanks

 

[ThinkGeekness]

I think that I am getting somewhere. Now if I go to domain.com/cgi-bin I get a 404 error, not what I expected, but its an improvement. I moved

<Directory/home/httpd/domain/cgi-bin>

outside of the

<IfModule mod_alias.c>

I have files in the folder, but I am getting a 404 error. How can I correct this now? If I go to

http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/script.pl

I also get a 404 error.

Thanks

 

[ThinkGeekness]

I just got the Forbidden error message again. Could you take a look at this and see if anything looks wrong? This is what I have for my http.conf file that deals with CGI:

<IfModule mod_alias.c>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ &quot;/home/httpd/domain/cgi-bin/&quot;

<Directory &quot;/home/httpd/domain/cgi-bin/&quot;>
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

</IfModule>

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

And for the file permissions, I have:

drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Feb 24 16:17 cgi-bin

I tried changing the directory, but I got the same Forbidden error.

Thanks for your help.

 

[RhythmAce]

Why is it inside of a <IfModule mod_alias.c> condition? What this will do, is if the condition is true, your cgi-bin will work, if not, it will be ignored. I would suggest putting all your vhost containers at the very bottom of httpd.conf so they are easier to work with. I also see a trailing slash where there should be none. Change this line to:

<Directory &quot;/home/httpd/domain/cgi-bin&quot;>

I'll take another look after I eat dinner.

 

[ThinkGeekness]

Thanks, I just changed the two things, and I have to update this forum on what I have done:

I can now get to the cgi-bin because I REM out the ScriptAlias. I not get a 500 Internal Server Error if I go to

http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/script.pl.

I am still trying to figure out how to get so that I can get to the script. Does it matter that I REMed out hte ScriptAlias to get it to work?

Thanks

 

[ThinkGeekness]

Do you think that it is a problem with a module or the way that I have it set up?

Thanks

 

[ThinkGeekness]

Maybe it is something that I am doing wrong in the httpd.conf file. The following is of what I have for it that has anything to do directories or CGI. Remember, I have Apache 1.3.26:

ServerRoot &quot;/usr/local/apache&quot;

#Listen 80
#Listen 192.168.0.4:80

#BindAddress *

Port 80

User nobody
Group nobody

ServerAdmin Admin@domain.net

#ServerName domain.net

DocumentRoot &quot;/home/httpd/domain&quot;

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>


<Directory &quot;/home/httpd/domain&quot;>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>


<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm
</IfModule>
UseCanonicalName On

<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;. If the fakename is slash-terminated, then the
# realname must also be slash terminated, and if the fakename omits the
# trailing slash, the realname must also omit it.
#
Alias /icons &quot;/usr/local/apache/icons&quot;

<Directory &quot;/usr/local/apache/icons&quot;>
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

# This Alias will project the on-line documentation tree under /manual/
# even if you change the DocumentRoot. Comment it if you don't want to
# provide access to the on-line documentation.
#
Alias /manual/ &quot;/usr/local/apache/htdocs/manual/&quot;

<Directory &quot;/usr/local/apache/htdocs/manual&quot;>
Options Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

#
# 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/ &quot;home/httpd/launchweb/cgi-bin/&quot;

</IfModule>

# AddType allows you to tweak mime.types without actually editing it, or to
# make certain files to be certain types.
#
AddType application/x-tar .tgz
# To use CGI scripts:
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
#AddType text/html .shtml
#AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
#AddHandler send-as-is asis
#AddHandler imap-file map
#AddHandler type-map var

</IfModule>
# End of document types.


#<Location /cgi-bin/phf*>
# Deny from all
# ErrorDocument 403

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

#</Location>

NameVirtualHost *

<Directory &quot;/home/httpd/domainvh&quot;>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm
</Directory>

<VirtualHost *>
UseCanonicalName Off
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
UseCanonicalName Off
ServerName domainvh.com
DocumentRoot &quot;/home/httpd/domainvh&quot;
ServerAlias

http://www.domainvh.com

</VirtualHost>

<Directory &quot;/home/httpd/domain/cgi-bin&quot;>
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
</Directory>

Sorry for it being so long, hopefully this helps. I now know that I have the correct modules installed, if you want me to post the module list, I can.

Thanks

 

[ThinkGeekness]

If this helps any, if I take out the AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl command it works (which I dont know why it wouldnt, it would treat it like a regular file.) But as expected, when I went to try the script, I got a 405 Method Not Allowed error.

I dont know what else I can try... Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[ThinkGeekness]

Nevermind, after all of this, it turned out to be the scripts, thanks anyways.