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Re: CGI Scripts, Apache 2.2.3, and Debian 4.0 R1

Jon D. Irish wrote:

Hi Freddy,
I was finally able to get it working, but I'm not exactly sure what I did to fix it. I think that it might have been enabling the cgid module. Does this make sense. Otherwise, I set most of the setting back to default, restarted Apache, and the scripts starting working.

Jon

----- Original Message ----
From: Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net>
To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 10:22:09 PM
Subject: Re: CGI Scripts, Apache 2.2.3, and Debian 4.0 R1

Jon D. Irish wrote:

I have a clean install of Debian 4.0 R1 with Apache 2.2.3-4 installed. I can not get cgi scripts to execute from the website. I have researched the Apache site and tried both of the following:
1) Under apache2.conf, I added 
   <Directory /var/www/cgi-bin >
     Options +ExecCGI
     AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
</Directory> 2) Under httpd.conf, I added 
#
# ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
# ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
# documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and
# run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the client.
# The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives as to
# Alias.
#
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
#
# "/var/www/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
# CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
#
<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
       AllowOverride None
       Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
       Order deny,allow
       Deny from all
       Allow from 192.168.1
</Directory>
Neither of these has allowed my cgi scripts to run. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? Sincerely, 
Jon


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This may be a stupid question, but did you enable the cgi module by creating a symbolic link from /etc/apache2/mods-enabled to /etc/apache2/mods-available and install the appropriate php4/php5-cgi package or the libapache-mod-fastcgi depending on your usage? Without doing those two things pache won't/can't load the cgi module. There are also some libcgi packages for perl and a couple of other languages too, but I'm not familiar with them as I've never had occasion to use them.
Not knowing what all you did, or exactly what type of scripts you're using, it's impossible to tell. I just know if you don't enable the correct modules for what you're doing no matter what's in your httpd.conf or your virtual server settings it just won't work. The correct combination of enabled modules and configuration settings is what works. You can tell which modules have been loaded, both dynamically and statically, by running, as root, "apache2 -D DUMP_MODULES".
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