DirectoryIndex not working for cgi-bin

[rsgalloway]

Hello all,

I have a virtual host running on Apache, let's call it

http://foo.bar.com

The scripts alias has been set to the root level, i.e. instead of a cgi-bin, all the files in my directory are scripts (no extensions). It's just a way of removing the .../cgi-bin/... from the URL:

http://foo.bar.com/script?x=1

-vs-

http://foo.bar.com/cgi-bin/script?x=1

Now, I'm trying to use the DirectoryIndex directive to call a script since I can't put an hmtl file in there, like index.hmtl, for example (notice no extension):

DirectoryIndex script

The problem I'm having is I keep getting a 403 Forbidden "You don't have permission to access / on this server." error whenever I try to load the page.

I've even tried putting in an error handling directive like

ErrorDocument 403

http://foo.bar.com/script

and that doesn't work either. Here are my directives:

ServerName foo.bar.com
DocumentRoot /home/bar.com/foo
ScriptAlias / "/home/bar.com/foo/"
<Directory "/home/bar.com/foo">
AllowOverride All
Options none
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorDocument 403

http://foo.bar.com/script

ErrorDocument 404

http://foo.bar.com/script

DirectoryIndex script

Can anyone out there tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Sorry, I can not convince Apache to use [tt]DirectoryIndex[/tt] this way, but may I propose a workaround ?

RewriteRule ^/$ /script [R,L]

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Wullie]

Now, I'm trying to use the DirectoryIndex directive to call a script since I can't put an hmtl file in there, like index.hmtl, for example (notice no extension):

DirectoryIndex script

The problem I'm having is I keep getting a 403 Forbidden "You don't have permission to access / on this server." error whenever I try to load the page.

Been a while since I used Apache so someone else can chime in if this has changed, however using the directive you have above without an extension tells Apache to pull up any file it finds that is called script, no matter what the extension is, it will not work the way you are wanting it to.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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