Re: apache: no permission to access netsaint cgi's?

[Arnout Engelen <a.engelen@gmx.net>]

|> > I'm trying to get netsaint running. I've got:
|> > 
|> > 1. a standard apache install from the latest binary (unstable) deb.
|> > 
|> > 2. a netsaint install from the latest netsaint binary (unstable) debs,
|> > including netsaint-plugins and netsaint-plugins-extra.
|> > 
|> > I didn't make changes to these installations. I installed apache in
|> > order to use netsaint, and then I installed netsaint and its plugins.
|> > 
|> > The message I get from apache when I try to use netsaint is:
|> > 
|> > "Forbidden
|> > You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/netsaint/config.cgi [or
|> > some other .cgi]  on this server."

It's a symlink problem. /usr/lib/cgi-bin/netsaint is a symlink to 
/usr/lib/netsaint/cgi-bin, and apache doesn't like that.

You should
a) remove the symlink
b) move the actual directory to where the symlink first was
c) make a symlink so that it 'seems' nothing has happened

(I could be mistaken about the names of the directories. You get the
point.)

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