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CGI Scripts not executing, pls help

I am running a basic login script with username and password, really text book, ive done this so many times, but now when I execute the script its like there is no interpreter and all I get is text of the actual script. The first line reads #!/usr/bin/perl which is where perl is installed by default cause im using RedHat 9.

Can anone help ?

Is the script placed in the cgi-bin folder? Does Apache understand to do +ExecCgi on that folder?

Or, as with Fedora Core 3, I have this line:

Code:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"

This way all files in there get interpreted.

Good luck

hmmm maybee thats the prob, im guessing thats in httpd.conf.

If that is the case, say im running 3 sites each with different virtual hosts and for each site i have different folders in /var/www/site1, or /var/www/site1, that means I will have different /cgi folders for each site. I guess I just have to add the script alias line in each virtual host right?

Yes, sorry, I was talking about /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf indeed.

You could do the above line for each virtual site indeed..

like, per site:

Code:

<VirtualHost ....>

  DocumentRoot /var/www/site1/html 

  Scriptalias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/site1/cgi-bin/"

</VirtualHost>

Or: (notice the cgi-bin within the DocumentRoot. Not preferred, but easier for ftp perhaps, I've seen this)

Code:

<VirtualHost ....>

  DocumentRoot /var/www/site1 

  Scriptalias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/site1/cgi-bin"

</VirtualHost>

or another way of doing:

Code:

<VirtualHost ....>

  DocumentRoot /var/www/site1/html

  Alias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/site1/cgi-bin/"

  <Directory "/var/www/site1/cgi-bin">

    Options +ExecCGI

  </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Just to name a few options.

Good luck..