[Chicago-talk] Which cgi-bin in Ubuntu?

[Clyde Forrester]

I did not need to modify anything. A post from Craig Van Tassle on LUNI 
answered my questions.

There is no ScriptAlias in httpd.conf, but there is one in 
/etc/apache2/sites-available/. So this allows the scripts in 
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/ to run from a phantom /var/www/cgi-bin/, but the files 
are otherwise isolated.

And the trivial "Hello, CGI!" script worked just fine. Having taken the 
first few steps, I can now take more. Today the universe, tomorrow the 
world!

Clyde Forrester wrote:
> I am about to attempt primitive web experiments with Perl, and I've hit 
> a snag. I'm using Ubuntu Linux 9.10 and Apache2. The general area for 
> the server is in /var/www/, but the cgi-bin directory is in /usr/lib/.
> 
> The two recommendations I've found by Googling are: 1. edit 
> /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, or 2. create a symlink.
> 
> Does anyone here have any strong opinions on this matter? Casual 
> guesses? Reasonable advice?
> 
> Clyde
>