Getting cgi-bin working in apache.
Peter Boy
pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de
Mon Aug 22 22:34:53 UTC 2005
Am Montag, den 22.08.2005, 17:05 -0400 schrieb Robert Cahn:
> I'm trying to process an HTML form. I've got apache up and running
> and I've uncommented the line "AddHandler cgi-script .cgi" in
> httpd.conf. When I load the form page (/var/www/html/entry.htm) into
> the browser and hit the submit program I expected calculate.cgi to
> start. It's in /var/www/cgi-bin. Instead what I get is a pop up
> saying "You have chosen to open calculate.cgi which is a: CGI script
> from /var/www/cgi-bin. What should Firefox do with this file? Open
> with Text Editor or save to disk?"
This message is typical if apache is missing exec permission. Did you
have option ExecCGI enabled (see documentaion at www.apache.org for
details)?
Peter
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