Running .exe form handler

Hi All,

I'm switching to Apache from IIS on an XP system. My current site has
several form handlers written in visual basic 6 which work fine. In IIS,
all I had to do was set the permissions for the forms/cgi_bin to allow
executables. I can't figure out how to do the same thing in Apache, so a
browser asks me if I want to download the program, rather than running it.

Thanks in advance,
Jim

Thanks so much. I had been trying to do just that and it wasn't working.
Now it does. My lesson here, is to remember that Apache takes off for
spelling - much like Miss Futch did in the third grade - and that
cgi-bin<>cgi_bin. I saw the mistake when I read your post.

God Bless,
Jim
"Davide Bianchi" <davideyeahsure@onlyforfun.net> wrote in message
news:slrnd2qlkd.143.davideyeahsure@fogg.onlyforfun .net...
> On 2005-03-07, James Warren <warren.james.d@att.net> wrote:
>> browser asks me if I want to download the program, rather than running
>> it.
>
> Then Apache doesn't understand that the file is executable and need to
> be run. Put it in a cgi-bin enabled directory. That is, one defined
> by a ScriptAlias directive or one that as Options ExecCGI enabled.
>
> See also the error_log, it should contain more descriptive error.
> Davide
>
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