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<FONT FACE="Espy Sans">on 1/27/01 5:56 PM, jason@matchingmoms.com at jason@matchingmoms.com wrote:<BR>
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</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Espy Sans">I've got my Apache web server installed -- when I launch my web browser and point it to my server (http://192.168.0.200) it delivers the page in /var/www/index.html. Hooray!<BR>
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My documentation tells me . . .<BR>
"CGI scripts are looked for in /usr/lib/cgi-bin, which is where Debian packages will place their scripts."<BR>
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So, I put a simple Perl script in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/test.pl, chmod +x test.pl, and when I point to http://192.168.0.200/usr/lib/cgi-bin/test.pl, I get this error:<BR>
Not Found<BR>
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The requested URL /usr/lib/cgi-bin/test.pl was not found on this server.<BR>
Any thoughts?<BR>
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The URL that you are using is incorrect. /usr/lib/cgi-bin is the physical location on disk where the files go. Apache has aliased this (probably to either cgi-bin or cgi). Try http://192.168.0.200/cgi-bin/test.pl and see if it works.<BR>
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I don’t recall the name of the Apache directive that sets up the cgi-bin directory. You could poke around in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. This is your master Apache config file, and the setting is in there somewhere.<BR>
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HTH,<BR>
Ken Scott<BR>
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<>< Ken Scott ken@optikos.net http://www.pcisys.net/~kscott<BR>
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