[Chicago-talk] Which cgi-bin in Ubuntu?
Clyde Forrester
clydeforrester at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 12:01:05 PDT 2010
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
>
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