[tpm] Splitting a perl cgi into cgi-bin and htdocs

[Olaf Alders]

Hi Indy,

I don't generally use .htaccess files, but some of these directives  
may be helpful to you:

On 25-Oct-08, at 11:36 AM, Indy Singh wrote:
>
>
> Anybody have experience with this?
>
> Other questions that come to mind for the single directory scenario  
> are:
> * How to configure .htaccess to run the cgi script by default?

DirectoryIndex index.cgi index.html index.htm

Something like the above is what you can use to set the default file  
for a given directory.  You can use arbitrary names and put them in  
the order of priority.

>
> * How to prevent the perl shell scripts from being accessed?
>
> * How to prevent the perl modules (.pm files) from being accessed?
>
> Would be better to put the restricted files into a subdirectory and  
> configure .htaccess file to deny access?

That would probably be the simplest way to handle it.

     <Directory ~ "\.svn">
         Order allow,deny
         Deny from all
     </Directory>

I use this to prevent any subversion folders from being viewable via  
the web.  Something like that should do the trick for you.

I hope this helps!

Olaf
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