Apache CGI error.

[nikhil]

whom are you running the server as? which user?
also can you post the directory permission on your cgi-bin dir?
and the main cgi file that you have?

[savage_cabbage]

I set my public_html as 755. But I also tried 711 and 770. I'm running httpd as apache. And my cgi-bin directories have permission 755.

and the main cgi file that you have?

What do you mean by the main cgi file? Do you mean the cgi script that I tested? In the test.cgi, I just put "#!/usr/bin/perl -w" and that's it.

[nikhil]

you are running the webserver as the user apache...what about the owner:group permissions on the cgi-bin dir and the files in it? can they be run
by the user apache or by the group to which apache belongs?

Also can you put the following code for your dir public_html in addition to the ExecCGI option.

AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

[nikhil]

ok...savage_cabbage....i configured a cgi-bin directory in my httpd.conf and it worked for me....
here is what I did:

first hash out all the default public_html entries that are present in your httpd.conf file...then add

Alias /public_html /<doc-root> path/public_html
then after you define the cgi handler and everythg at the end add:

<Directory "/<doc-root> path/public_html/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

this setup worked for me just now, so hopefully it shud work for you too!!

[savage_cabbage]

What do you mean by <doc-root> path? As I just put this in httpd.conf file, apache doesn't even start. It says:

Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 400 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
Alias takes two arguments, a fakename and a realname
[FAILED]


Do you mean I should change <doc-root> path to /home/*/? That way it still has the same server error message.

[savage_cabbage]

Ok, I got it figured out eventually. There's nothing wrong with the http.conf file. My original configuration is currect. The problem is the "test.cgi" file is owned by root, not the owner of the public_html folder (in this case "david"). I suppose that Apache can't run .cgi files owned by root in other directories other than the main cgi directory (correct me if I'm wrong).