hi there,

i have an admin system that allows my client to manage their web site database. i want to give them a nice easy url such as wubbleyou.xxxx.com/admin and so i tried:

1. i added a 'FollowSymLink" into the website root <directory> directive.
2. i added a symbolic link from website_root/admin/index.html to /cgi-bin/entry.pl (the entry page for the admin system).
3. i configured .htaccess to control access to entry.pl on the system.

so...if i go to wubbleyou.xxxx.com/cgi-bin/entry.pl i get the proper challenge from .htaccess and then upon entering password i get a proper exec version of my admin entry page (written in perl).

but...if i go to wubbleyou.xxxx.com/admin i get redirected but the perl file is just displayed (with some odd tabling for some reason) and not executed as though the ExecCGI directive isn't working.

what is the most efficient way of doing what i'm trying (unsuccessfully) to do?

many thanks,
andrewg.

You have to let apache know to expect cgi in a given directory, either with ScriptAlias, or SuExec.

instead of this symlink stuff, you could just put the script at website_root/admin/index.cgi, and then in the web server configuration for this directory do something like this:
* make sure the Options directive has enabled "ExecCGI"
* add the following line: "AddHandler cgi-script .cgi"

Oops, Spooon is correct, it's ExecCGI, not SuExec, sorry.

hi guys,

thanks for your posts. i was hoping to avoid doing that, but for now i've whacked the whole shebang into the admin folder and changed a few links (should have been relative anyway :-)).

i was kinda hoping just to get it going with a soft link or something but it will have to do for now.

thanks,
andrewg.