Re: Apache tilde question - Solved
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 08:39:50PM -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 12:28:01AM -0700, Tim Metz wrote:
> : > ScriptAlias /~smith/cgi-bin/ /home/smith/public_html/cgi-bin/
>
> You've got a bigger problem at work here.
> Your cgi-bin dir is potentially readable by HTTP clients. BAD.
> Locate it somewhere else on the filesystem.
Could you explain why? I can't see it. ~smith/cgi-bin will be
the only way to access the directory, so either they'll be executed
or they'll be sent. Scripts have to be readable (as well as executable),
of course.
thanks,
Hamish
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