Very Computer

by **Tony McGuinnes** » Sun, 04 Mar 2001 22:44:09

I have installed apache and it appears to be up and running correctly -
however when I set up a html document pointing to a Perl script, the
script is displayed rather than being executed. I am using RedHat 7.0.

Thanks in advance for any help.

by **Rick Mille** » Tue, 06 Mar 2001 17:43:49

> I have installed apache and it appears to be up and running correctly -
> however when I set up a html document pointing to a Perl script, the
> script is displayed rather than being executed. I am using RedHat 7.0.

There are typically 2 methods you can choose to use here. Leaving cgi
scripts in the DocumentRoot and executing them from there or executing
them from within cgi-bin/.

IMO (and there may be others), it's best to just do it within
cgi-bin/. This can be accomplished simply by setting up the appropriate
ScriptAlias directive. Thsi script alias will point to a safe location
outside your DocumentRoot such as $APACHE_INSTALL_DIR/cgi-bin/.

Secondly, you could put the CGI scripts in your DocumentRoot (not
suggested) and add a AddHandler or SetHandler directive to you conf
file. You'll have to set the 'OPTIONS ExecCGI' directive too.

--Rick