Help getting started with CGIs on a Mac

[din23gaan]

I can access web pages on my Mac, but not execute CGI's. I was under the impression that one could put a CGI, such as e.g. the standard hello.pl one, into the folder /Library/Webserver/CGI-Executables, and then, assuming that u.v.y.z was the URL of one's computer, invoke that CGI by employing

http://u.v.y.z/cgi-bin/hello.pl.

But when I tried this, I got a message stating that I do not have permission to access /cgi-bin/hello.pl on this server. I tried navigating to the CGI-Executables folder using Terminal, and then employing sudo chmod 755 hello.pl. But this didn't make any difference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[feherke]

Hi

I tried navigating to the CGI-Executables folder using Terminal, and then employing sudo chmod 755 hello.pl.

Also checked the permission of the containing folders ?

Do you have this ( or similar ) line in you configuration file ?

[url=http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html#scriptalias]ScriptAlias[/url] /cgi-bin/ /Library/Webserver/CGI-Executables

Have you read Apache Tutorial: Dynamic Content with CGI ?

Sorry for the question, I not know Mac but that path looks abit strange for me. Are you sure you are using Apache web server ?

Feherke.

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