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06-02-2009, 04:58 AM
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Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04, Solaris 10
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Safe to Delete /cgi-bin
It is safe to delete /cgi-bin? Will it affect when we serving via the browser?
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06-02-2009, 08:16 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Sydney
Distribution: Rocky 9.2
Posts: 18,418
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Is there anything in it? If so, is it used?
See also the Script directives in your Apache httpd conf files.
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06-02-2009, 11:30 PM
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Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04, Solaris 10
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Originally Posted by chrism01
Is there anything in it? If so, is it used?
See also the Script directives in your Apache httpd conf files.
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how we know that it is being used or not being used? it is check via the httpd conf file? if so how to check? please advice |
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06-03-2009, 12:17 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Sydney
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1. are there any files in that dir?
2. if there are, you need to check eg using grep to see if those files are referenced by any of your html files.
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06-03-2009, 03:30 AM
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Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Originally Posted by chrism01
1. are there any files in that dir?
2. if there are, you need to check eg using grep to see if those files are referenced by any of your html files.
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hi, thank for reply, what you means by "eg using grep"? Can you show me an example? I really appreciate it |
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06-03-2009, 08:39 AM
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Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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How about the test-cgi? Did if safe to delete also? or it just a test file?
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