First of all let me thank the people who took the time to point out the
problem with the cgi issue under Solaris/Apache. I appreciate the
patience and the details provided by the people mentioned below. Again,
I appreciate the help provided by all the people who take the time to
answer Sun Solaris questions in the mailing list. Thanks for the
prompt replies from: Stephen Harris, Sebastian Benoit, Dave McFerren
The solution change your srm.conf file to include:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /path/to/cgi-bin/ #just uncomment the line
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl #uncommnet the line, add .pl
As for the critics of postings... well shit happens get over it! I read
the postings... there are some of the wall questions. Look if you don't
like what you are reading and you are not contributing any answers to
the list... just keep your comments to yourself.
My question was "What is preventing the execution of the cgi files, the
OS, Apache, or Netscape?!" It seems obvious that this might not be an
appropriate questions for Sun-Managers after the fact! After the
experience of the Sun-Managers list answered the questions and it turns
out to be the software package instead of Solaris, then and only then
can this be considered an inappropriate question. It could have gone
either way... Solaris could have been the problem.
I checked the Apache site for information on configuring cgi prior to
posting. The cgi link on the main page send you to:
www.apache.org/docs/suexec.html which has no information on the
configuration options for the server. If on the other hand you do a
SEARCH for cgi you get 39 links one of which has the information "cgi
path.html". Again this is after the freaking fact!!!
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Original Posting:
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Sparc 20, Solaris 2.6, Apache 1.2, Netscape Communicator 4.05:
I have installed Apache (precompiled), the files under
/var/lib/httpd/cgi-bin/ are been displayed by Netscape as opposed to
executed as .cgi or.pl files. The files these permissions:
711 for /var/lib/httpd/cgi-bin/
755 for /var/lib/httpd/htdocs/
644 for /var/lib/httpd/htdocs/index.html (all files here are 644)
I am doing all the testing as root. When looking up the cgi files, I
get the sourcode. I seen this with .Z files under Netscape, Netscape
doesn't know the file type and opens it instead of downloading the
files. What is preventing the execution of the cgi files, the OS,
Apache, or Netscape?!
All documentation on the subject assumes that:
http://servername/cgi-bin/*.cgi, http://servername/cgi-bin/*.pl
are cgi scripts?! Any sugestions would be appreciated.
Carlos
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