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From: tomasg@sec11.dsv.su.se (Tomas Gustavsson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with Apache
Date: 22 Aug 1996 08:35:17 GMT
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In article <4ut3rj$jhj@murphy2.servtech.com>,
	pygmy@cyber3.servtech.com (hoo-chuan tan) writes:
>I'm running and BSD machine, and trying to get Apache v1.1 to work
>properly with it.  Apache lets me access all my web pages on the
>machine, however, I'm having difficulty getting Apache to run CGI
>scripts properly.  Can someone please tell me how to set up Apache
>properly such that the CGI scripts are being run?
>
>Miscellaneous information:
>I believe I've set up all the proper configuration files in access.conf
>and httpd.conf.  However, when I try to access the cgi-bin directory, it
>says that the cgi-bin directory was not found on the server.
>
>Thanks for your help in advance!

There should be no problems, I have it working perfectly.

You must have the line:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/cgi-bin/
in the srm.conf file (it is commented in the example files).

The check that the cgi-bin directory exists in the htdocs directory
and is WORLD readable.

Regards,
Tomas Gustavsson 
Computer Security Technologies CST AB
Email: tomasg@cost.se
Tel: +46 8 16 17 01
Fax: +46 8 471 77 22