Apache and cgi's on user-dir...

[Åsmund Ødegård <aa@simula.no>]

Hi,

We experience a problem with the apache webserver on a server running Debian
woody, plain i386 hardware. 

We have the following setting:

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
    UserDir www_docs
</IfModule>

and ExecCGI is enabled for these directories in a suitable <Directory> tag.
Plain html, shtml, php and so on works just as expected. The problem is with
cgi-scripts, which will not execute. A strace on the apache-process reviewd
that the server still tries to access public_html directory to locate the
cgi-script, instead of www_docs as specified. The problem is then fixable by
symlinking public_html to www_docs in the users homedirectory. But since we
serve some hundred users, this is not an option.

So, have anyone else experienced this problem, and is there a fix somewhere?

Or is this simply a bug in the debian-make of apache?

mvh,
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