First time using Apache

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I just installed apache on my computer (win 98). i cant figure out how to just test cgi scripts on my page. any ideas?

 

[maxit]

You need to edit and configure your httpd.conf file for directories that you want to run cgi's from. Default it only setups up the directory such as /home/httpd/cgi-bin. If you need other directories to run cgi from you will need to add to what directories httpd will allow cgi's to run from. Such lines look like this:

<Directory /home/httpd/html/mail>
AllowOverride None
Options Includes ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

And you also need to make sure that this section is probably about the same as the follows.

# 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 FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI

Taking care of this and making sure you have permissions correct on running cgi's
(ie chmod 755 <filename.cgi) and other files that are written to by cgi's. (ie chmod 666 - which is your read/write access) also the directory permissions play a roll.

Hope this helps
Maxit