Hi,

Having a bit of a problem with CGI scripts without file extensions (eg. www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/qmailadmin). When I go to the address of the cgi script, I am just prompted to download the file. I presume that I need to put an AddType directive into httpd.conf to map these files to the right mime type, but I'm not quite sure how to do it.

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance

For cgi scripts that need to be executed thru a browser, you'll need some kind of extension.

qmailadmin is a binary file which need to be owned by the vpopmail user and needs to be in the vchkpw group.

chown vpopmail qmailadmin
chgrp vchkpw qmailadmin
chmod u+s,g+s qmailadmin

ls -l qmailadmin
-rwsr-sr-x 1 vpopmail vchkpw 379879 Nov 28 01:46 qmailadmin

Thanks, but everyone else on the internet seems to have it working fine without an extension. The main thing I'm trying to get to work is qmailadmin following the tutorial on qmailrocks.org, and I've looked through all the documentation on it and it says nothing about editing your apache config.

When I type 'file qmailadmin' I get

qmailadmin: setuid setgid ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

which suggests that it is an executable rather than a bit of perl. I can put a .cgi file extension onto the end of qmailadmin to get qmailadmin.cgi, and it runs alright in a browser. But as soon as I try to submit something, it tries to find qmailadmin again and comes back with a 404 error. I also tried symlinking qmailadmin to qmailadmin.cgi and telling apache to follow symlinks in that directory, but to no avail.

Any more ideas?

You dont need the extension. It will work without it. Your permissions/ownerships must be wrong.

Can't use symlinks thru a browser, not possible that I know of. Come to think of it you can most likely use it without extensions but you need to tell apache this and configure it properly. I unfortunately have never bothered to do this so I'd suggest reading up the docs over at httpd.apache.org for more information in configuring apache to know to execute without an extension.

It can't be his permissions.. he changes the name with a .cgi at the end and it executes.. it just tries to go back to the original filename, my guess is it refers to that name in the script.

There is no extension and apache thinks its a binary file so its prompting to download. You have to get apache to execute this file instead of prompting to download since it has no extensions to define what kind of script it is.. a cgi or pl and so on.

Sorted it, had to add a SetHandler directive into httpd.conf to tell apache that everything in /cgi-bin was a cgi-script.

Thanks for your help anyway

Glad it worked.. as I knew it wasn't a permissions issue

Geez, nice of you to rub it in my face.