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<DIV><SPAN class=148381902-19082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Ted,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=148381902-19082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=148381902-19082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
tried you setting using the /var/www/html</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=148381902-19082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=148381902-19082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>basically dropping the website piece and I'm still getting a Forbidden
error. I've even tried changing the cgi-bin directory to 777 and making the user
and group apache/apache.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=148381902-19082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=148381902-19082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>still
no go.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=148381902-19082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=148381902-19082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>please
keep the ideas coming.I saw Nathan's suggestion, but I'm not sure if that would
help me at this point. If I'm getting these errors should I get basic CGI/Perl
working before adding in something else?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=148381902-19082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=148381902-19082005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>-RS</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Ted Swoyer
[mailto:tswoyer@sworby.net] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:06
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Ronny Serrano; discuss@blu.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
Apache/Perl question<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ronny,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On my server, my config file uses the following
model:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alias /website
"/var/www/website/html"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><Directory
"/var/www/website/html"></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
MultiViews ExecCGI</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> AddHandler cgi-script
.pl</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> AllowOverride
None</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Order Allow,Deny</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Allow from all</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><Directory></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have the /var/www/cgi-bin directory entry as
you show it. I don't have a separate AddHandler line as you show it (it
is commented out).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Unless I am missing some other parameter, this
seems to allow me to run various perl scripts from my server. My config file
provides support for more than one web site and the Directory entry shown
above is repeated for any "website" that requires perl.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hope this helps,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR>Ted Swoyer<BR><A
href="mailto:tswoyer@sworby.net">tswoyer@sworby.net</A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>SWORBY, LLC<BR>Computer Support, Consulting and Training<BR>for
Businesses and Individuals<BR>(978) 667-8558<BR><A
href="http://www.sworby.net">www.sworby.net</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=RSerrano@heartsonfire.com
href="mailto:RSerrano@heartsonfire.com">Ronny Serrano</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discuss@blu.org
href="mailto:discuss@blu.org">discuss@blu.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 18, 2005 9:41
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Apache/Perl question</DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all. I'm a little new to linux and apache.
I've been able to get by in most situations using google and linux resources
on the net to answer most questions. Unfortunately this one is starting to
get to me and I could use a lil help.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a server that is running linux and apache
on it at a hosted site. A new requirement we have is to run some perl
scripts on the box. I've gone in and modified the httpd.conf file and
restarted apache. The following are the entries that I modified were the
following:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>#</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>#
"/var/www/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2># CGI directory exists, if you have that
configured.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>#</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2><Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2> AllowOverride None</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2> Options None</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2> Order allow,deny</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2> Allow from all</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2></Directory></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl</FONT>
</P><BR><BR>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>On the options line I've tried ExecCGI, +ExecCGI
and All. </FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>The directory/scriptalias points
to the correct directory. I've set the rights on the script as 755. For some
reason I get a Forbidden or a 403 everytime I try to run one of these
scripts directly over http. The scripts are placed in the /var/www/cgi-bin
directory. What am I missing? I'm not using any .htaccess file.. Not that I
know of. Should the rights to the cgi-bin directory be 755 also? Any help
would be greatly appreciated.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ronny Serrano</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Network Administrator</FONT> </P>
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