Hello all,

I wanted to execute .cgi programs outside the normal cgi-bin directory so i added

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

to my httpd.conf & modified the <Directory> tag as follows:

<Directory "/usr/local/apache2/htodcs/keithkessler">
DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.php
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
AllowOverride Options FileInfo
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

I even added Options +ExecCGI to the .htaccess file

but my error_log looks like this

ExecCGI is off in this directory: /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/keithkessler/mt-check.cg

I've been playing with this for hours and can't figure it out.

Thanks so much!

why do you allow options to be overridden?

AllowOverride None

I allow override of FileInfo for the Gallery software package - options really don't need be overriden and I have removed that but still the same result.

I've also tried with AllowOverride None and still the same result.

Thanks,

--KK

TrySo when you go to http://your.server.com/cgii/test.cgi it will run the script from your directory

Okay, now this makes no sense!

I assed:

ScriptAlias /cgi/ "/usr/local/apache2/htodcs/keithkessler/"

and when I try to access

http://www.keithkessler.com/cgi/mt-check.cgi I get a 404 - the file is there

The error_log reads:

script not found or unable to stat: /usr/local/apache2/htodcs

Why doens't it continute out to the full path?

The scripts to execute if I place them in the cgi-bin directory but I need to be able to execute the scripts in the site root.

--KK

...look a little harder...

THANKS!

Of am I embarrassed!!

That works just fine now but is there any way to get them to execute in the site root without using an alias?

Thanks,

--KK

eh.. .typos are my number 1 problem -- first thing i look for when troubleshooing...

yeah... all i use is the
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
and options ExecCGI (on the base directory)

--don't know why it's getting overwritten for you... when you get some free time, you might want to comb your httpd conf file...