On Wednesday 15 April 2009 17:41:10 dan moylan wrote:
> 
> 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.

Just above it, add:

ScriptAlias /moy/cgi-bin/ "/var/www/moy/cgi-bin/"

iirc -- based on your access.log snippet at the end.

> 
> 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.

Your browser is requesting /favicon.ico, which is the little site-specific
icon that shows up in the URL bar in people's browsers.

>>   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"


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