Re: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help?
Herbert,
A few things to check:
1. Remove the quotes in your Directory statement, i.e. <Directory />
instead of <Directory "/">.
2. Make sure the directory you are trying to execute cgis in is under your
DocmentRoot if you're using a <Directory /> statement. If what you want is
to serve pages and execute cgis from your user directory (typically
outside the DocumentRoot), then read up on the UserDir directive in the
apache docs.
3. Check your access.conf file to make sure there isn't already some
directives configured for the path your directory is in. The default
configuration in Debian has something for public_html that you may need to
edit.
4. Be sure to restart the server after making changes.
HTH,
Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Herbert Ho wrote:
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:55:26 -0600
> From: Herbert Ho <hoherbe@charlie.cns.iit.edu>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: apache, perl, 403 forbidden, help?
>
> hi all.
>
> i can't get apache to execute a perl/cgi script.
>
> *box: potato/sparc, installed apache-perl and its dependencies.
>
> *error: 403 forbidden in web browser. this in error log:
>
> Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /home/herb/public_html/init/login.pl
>
> i tired everything in the faq and manual to little success. things
> i've tried:
>
> 1) i've added the handler and options directives to my srm.conf:
>
> AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
> <Directory "/">
> Options +All +ExecCGI
> </Directory>
>
> i know +All and +ExecCGI are redudant and this is not secure, but
> i'm desperate. =)
>
> 2) i tried pointing the directory to the exact directory where i'm
> executing the script (i.e. "/" -> "/home/herb/public_html/init", my
> script resides in init/) to no avail.
>
> 3) i tried replacing the <Directory> directive w/
>
> ScriptAlias ~herb/public_html/init /home/herb/public_html/init
>
> again, no effect.
>
> 4) installing the 'apache' package instead of 'apache-perl'. it makes
> me download the script.
>
>
> permissions look correct. all parents of the script directory are at
> least o+rx. i am able to execute scripts ok in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
> (ScriptAlias'ed to cgi-bin/), but not elsewhere.
>
> HELP? any is appreicated...
>
>
> herbert
>
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