setting up Apache2 to execute cgi-bin perl scripts
My server is running Debian/Stable on an AMD64 system.
I'm trying to set up its local Apache2 service to execute cgi-bin
scripts but I'm having some problems getting it to work.
I note that /etc/apache2/conf-enabled contains a link to
/etc/apache2/conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf so I'm assuming that
cgi-bin is enabled. The .conf contains a ScriptAlias directive which I
believe redirects /cgi-bin/ to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ but that's as far as I
can get.
I don't want to tamper with the conf-available scripts so I went along
with their settings. First I tried to link the script I want executed to
the file in the site's public_html/cgi-bin/ folder but that didn't work.
Next I tried copying the file to /usr/lib/cgi-bin but got the same
results. Even when I changed the ownership of the directory and its
files from root:root to www-data:www-data, the script still doesn't execute.
Instead when I click on the page's submit button, I get a dialog box
asking me what program I want to use to open the file (which gives me
the option of Kate).
To be clear, the perl script is marked a+x and it does work on the
external web server that I use to host the live site. Also, I have
restarted the apache2 service multiple times even though the config has
not changed.
Can anyone figure out what I'm missing?
Thanks.
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