[Novalug] running cgi-bin scripts locally via apache and browser

[Igor Birman]

Check your scriptalias directive in the httpd.conf file.  If that does not help, post your httpd.conf and maybe we can help...

Igor

Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell at qis.net> wrote: 
The mysql tutorial was going very well until I came to the part about 
running a script via the browser.

i have apache running with:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache start


the first time I went through the tutorial and did this - before dinner 
- the script executed from the Firefox browser.

I shut the computer off and had dinner. When I came back and started it 
up again the script does not execute via firefox. instead firefox comes 
up with a requestor window offering to download the script to disk or 
open it in text editor.

"You have chosen to open random.cgi which is a: CGI script from 
/usr/lib/cgi-bin"


here are the permissions for the directory: usr/lib/cgi-bin:

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     4096 2007-10-06 10:33 cgi-bin

and here are the permissions for the files withing /usr/lib/cgi-bin:

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1030 2007-10-06 10:33 list2.cgi
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 1030 2007-10-06 10:21 list.cgi
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1029 2007-10-06 10:20 list.cgi~
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1011 2007-10-06 10:10 random.cgi
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1011 2007-10-06 09:16 random.cgi~




I was hoping to learn how to set up a mysql database to run on my website 
but to debug everything locally before activating the mysql service at my 
ihp.

i had problems a while back understanding how to do this and sort of gave 
up but I thought I would try again.

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