Re: Apache cgi-bin for users

[Keith Elder <keith@zorka.com>]

Thanks Marcel,

Let me restate what it was I was asking just to clarify my situation.
If anyone has any input, by all means annie up.

What I am trying to do is setup the server so users in /home/*/ can
execute CGI programs on their personal web pages on this particular machine.  I found a reference in the apache admin guide I have and the apache site which say to put the following in the httpd.conf:

<Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin>
	Options ExecCGI
	Addhandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
</Directory>

I have done that, but I still cannot make the following work:

http://yourdomain.com/~username/cgi-bin/test.cgi

When this page is run, I get "premature end of headers" in the error.log
file.  I thought this would be fairly simple but it is turning out to be
a headache.

Anything else I can try?

Keith


* Marcel Hicking (hicking@du.gtn.com) wrote:
> From: "Marcel Hicking" <hicking@du.gtn.com>
> To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:08:32 +0100
> Subject: Re: Apache cgi-bin for users
> Reply-to: hicking@du.gtn.com
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> 
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /path/to/customers/cgi-bin/
> 
> See
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_alias.html#scriptalias
> 
> Please make really(!) sure what security implications it
> has to allow not trustworthy people (customers ;-) to run
> programms on _your_ server. Hint: Look for cgi-wrap and
> changeroot.
> 
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/security_tips.html
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/suexec.html
>  or better
> http://wwwcgi.umr.edu/~cgiwrap/
> 
> Cheers,
> Marcel
> 
> 
> Keith Elder <keith@zorka.com> 31 Dec 2001, at 17:31:
> 
> > Greetings and Happy New Year!
> >
> > I am trying to enable cgi-bin on user directories.  I found
> > the following lines on the apache.org site, put them in, but
> > they didn't work:
> >
> > <Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin>
> >     Options ExecCGI
> >  SetHandler cgi-script
> > </Directory>
> >
> >
> > Any other suggestions as to how to setup cgi-bin directories
> > for user accounts?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Keith
> >
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