Cgi-bin

Cool_Hand_Luke · 04-02-2005, 11:52 AM

Ok I need help. I had everything working perfectly and then decided to install this web server stuff which required me to change permissions on the CGI-BIN directory to 777 which I did.

Anyways the thing never worked and after removing the stuff I discoverd none of my previous scripts work now!

What do I need to change back? All the scripts are still 755 and the CGI-BIN directory is 777? Is this correct?

Please HELP as my webforms are no longer working or even a simple test script I wrote.

Cheers,

Cool Hand...

btmiller · 04-02-2005, 12:31 PM

What errors do you get from your CGI scripts? Is there anything in your Apache error log that would illuminate the problem? In general, it's a bad idea to have world writeable directories, particularly in a Web server settinhg. I'd change the cgi-bin directory back to 755 unless you have some other reason not to.

Cool_Hand_Luke · 04-02-2005, 03:30 PM

This is the error:

Quote:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, lukeharris_79@msn.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.44 (Mandrake Linux/11mdk) mod_perl/1.99_08 Perl/v5.8.0 mod_ssl/2.0.44 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP/4.3.1 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80

All I changed was the permissions and now it doesn't work at all

But it used to. I don't know what the original settings were either.

Cool_Hand_Luke · 04-02-2005, 03:32 PM

Fixed it! Thanks for the response.

You see I changed to permissions back to what the other directories were 775. However once I made it 755 it worked!

SWEET!!

Cheers,

CoolHand...