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

[GNiessen]

I am trying to enable running CGI scripts on Apache 1.3.23 on Mandrake 8.2 where suExec appears to be running. This is a pretty plain install, but I have added:

ScriptAlias /scripts/ &quot;/<directory>/httpd/cgi-bin/&quot;

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

But I still get the error that I don't have permission to run. And I am seeing that suexec is enabled, but I have not done anything to configure it. It is the base install from Mandrake.

 

[RhythmAce]

It looks like it should work to me so there must be something else causing the error. If your permissions (using chmod) are set up so apache has access to the the directory, then the only thing I can think of is the way you are calling the cgi script. The way you have it defined in httpd.conf, the url would be

http://www.yourdomain.com/scripts/yourscript.cgi.

The ScriptAlias directive is doing 2 things. It tells apache to treat everything in that directory as a script, and to pretend the directory is inside the DocumentRoot.