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Re: Apache and CGI



On Thursday 24 June 2004 08:43 am, Mark Par wrote:
> Greg Sidelinger wrote:
> >Ok I feel pretty stupid for even asking this but how do I make cgi scripts
> >work with apache2 and unstable.  I did just the default install of apache2
> >and tried to run the test-cgi script and all I got for output was the
> > script itself.  I know I have had this same problem before on unstable
> > but for the life of me I can't figure out what I did to fix it.  The
> > scripts are all 755 and nothing shows up in the error logs. I just got
> > the script displaced which tells me that they are not being processed.
> >The /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default config file has ExecCGI and a
> >scriptalias for the directory but for the life of me I can't get apache to
> >process the cgi scripts.  I'm using the apache2-mpm-prefork package. The
> > the current config is the default from the packages.  If anyone can point
> > me in the correct direction so I can test some simple programs please let
> > me know what I'm over looking.
> >
> >Greg
>
> The module for the cgi is not loaded to the server yet.
> You need to say
>
>     # a2enmod cgi
>
> then
>
>     # apache2ctl graceful

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.  I ended up just linking 
cgi.load from modules-available to modules-enabled and it all took off.

>
> Now try
>     $ lynx http://servername/cgi-bin/printenv
>
> BTW: You should also install apache2-common.
it is a dependany of all the apache2 bin packages so it was installed.



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