Very Computer

I don't have a problem accessing any of the other directories or their
files.

There was a time when I could access and execute the scripts in
cgi-bin.  Something obviously changed, but I can't figure out what.

My directory structure is

/home/httpd
/home/httpd/cgi-bin
/home/httpd/testweb

srm.conf
DocumentRoot /home/httpd
AccessFileName .htaccess
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ home/httpd/cgi-bin

I don't have any .htaccess (or equivalent) file in any directories

access.conf
<Directory />
Options None
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /home/httpd>
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /home/httpd/cgi-bin>
order allow,deny
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
</Directory>

Thanks for the help

I hope this helps. . .

-Justin Kelly

-Justin Kelly

Quote:

>I am running Apache 1.3 on rh 5.2.  Whenever I try to display the
>cgi-bin directory or execute one of the scripts within the directory
>(through the server), I get the 'access forbidden' error.

>I don't have a problem accessing any of the other directories or their
>files.

>There was a time when I could access and execute the scripts in
>cgi-bin.  Something obviously changed, but I can't figure out what.

>My directory structure is

>/home/httpd
>/home/httpd/cgi-bin
>/home/httpd/testweb

>srm.conf
>DocumentRoot /home/httpd
>AccessFileName .htaccess
>ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ home/httpd/cgi-bin

>I don't have any .htaccess (or equivalent) file in any directories

>access.conf
><Directory />
>Options None
>AllowOverride None
></Directory>
><Directory /home/httpd>
>Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
>AllowOverride None
>order allow,deny
>allow from all
></Directory>
><Directory /home/httpd/cgi-bin>
>order allow,deny
>AllowOverride None
>Options ExecCGI
></Directory>

>Thanks for the help

If DocumentRoot is /home/httpd then there is no reason to have an alias.
You can access the cgi-bin by simply http://yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/....

Now, if your directory structure was thus..

/home/httpd
/home/httpd/cgi-bin
/home/httpd/html

And the DocumentRoot was /home/httpd/html then the alias would be
necessary. The ScriptAlias would be /cgi-bin/ /home/httpd/cgi-bin

It looks like you need the leading / on your ScriptAlias. It might work
that way. Try putting a simple html file in the cgi-bin and browse to it
with http://yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/whatever.html  and see if you can see
it. If not then your alias is definately causing the trouble. Remove it,
restart apache, and try again. Don't forget to check out the http error log
for a message that a file does not exist. That will tell you exactly where
the server was looking for your file.

Mark

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Hi Steve,

  Just out of interest, what does the error log report when you try to execute
one of the cgi-bin scripts.  Additionally, have you added the cgi-handler ?

See ya

Dean Thompson

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