ben writes:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 04:30:10PM -0400, dan moylan wrote:
> > it shows this:
> >    [Wed Apr 15 16:22:35 2009] [error] [client 127.0.1.1]
> >    Options ExecCGI is off in this directory:
> >    /var/www/moy/cgi-bin/welcome.cgi
> >
> > looks useful, but i don't know how to turn it on.

> Add a bit like this:

> <Directory "/var/www/moy/cgi-bin">
>   Options ExecCGI
>   AllowOverride None
>   Order allow,deny
>   Allow from all
> </Directory>

did that.  now i just get the contents of welcome.cgi (the
code) displayed in the browser window.

error.log now shows:
  [Wed Apr 15 17:20:22 2009] [error] [client 192.168.0.4] File
    does not exist: /var/www/favicon.ico

favorite icons?  god knows i haven't any.

> > > Also, what is the HTTP error code you're getting for the URL?
> >
> >   forbidden

> So that's a 403?  The access_log will have the exact HTTP status code:
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

access.log now shows:

  192.168.0.4 - - [15/Apr/2009:17:22:20 -0400] "GET
  /moy/cgi-bin/welcome.cgi HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0
  (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020911
  Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.6"

> You probably need to check your permissions for the moy and cgi-bin
> directories and make sure +x is set on the script itself.

they're ok.

> You can also run that script by hand to make sure it's outputting valid
> HTML.

it does.

dan

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