Re: setting up Apache2 to execute cgi-bin perl scripts
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:12:53AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> 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?
>
Did you enable it?
sudo a2enmod cgi
-H
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