I have been trying to install Blosxom, a perl script based web blog, on both my desktop and on a host server based system.

Following the install procedure, blosxom.cgi is placed in the /public_html/cgi-bin directory. The data files are placed in the /home/user/blosxom data directory.

After configuring the blosxom.cgi, I should be able to access the file via a web browser. However, when opening the file, it is displayed in a text editor rather than as a web page as it should.

I can run the blosxom.cgi as a script from a command line and it will generate the page source.

I believe this is an Apache configuration issue but I have been unable to solve it.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Jeff

the file probably doesnt have the execute permission
chmod 755 blosxom.cgi

If you have root access, try placing them in the ScriptAliased directory, possibly /var/www/cgi-bin. If you don't have root access, you are probably unable to fix this, since you will need to modify the Apache config file.

--- rod.

Thanks for the ideas. I can go the alias route on one server that is a vps. The other is in a shared environment.

The blosxom.cgi script permissions are set to 755.

Jeff

can you run those default files present in cgi-bin, testparam or something.

I'll testparam a try. Thanks for the hint.

Jeff