ben writes:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 03:32:00PM -0400, dan moylan wrote:
> > i would guess that this is some sort of configuration
> > problem, but after studying the o'reilly rat book, i have
> > not been able to hit on the right line to put into the
> > configuration file (/etc/apache2/apache2-conf).
> >
> >   AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
> >
> > was suggested (though deprecated), but didn't help.
> >
> > any clues?

> In your httpd.conf set the LogLevel to debug, open a new
> term to tail the error_log and then restart the server.  Hit
> your CGI URL.  It should spew some useful log messages.

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.

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

  forbidden

  You don't have permission to access /moy/cgi-bin/welcome.cgi
  on this server.

dan

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