Serve HTML file from /cgi-bin

My Apache configuration has the following directives:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"

<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

I'd like to be able to server a single HTLM file from this directory
(index.html) to catch requests to the URL http://<servername>/cgi-bin/

However, Apache seems unhappy about this... probably because it's trying
to execute my html file instead of serving it verbatim.

Are there any configuration changes that I need to make to allow this,
or am I going to have to alter my approach and create an index.pl file,
instead?

Thanks

"Dan Rumney" <danrumney@warpmail.net> schreef in bericht
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> My Apache configuration has the following directives:
>
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
>
> <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
> AllowOverride None
> Options FollowSymLinks
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> I'd like to be able to server a single HTLM file from this directory
> (index.html) to catch requests to the URL http://<servername>/cgi-bin/
>
> However, Apache seems unhappy about this... probably because it's trying
> to execute my html file instead of serving it verbatim.
Tha't's indeed what 'ScriptAlias ...' does for a good purpose:
avoid exposure of a script's source

> Are there any configuration changes that I need to make to allow this,
You should not want to ...

> or am I going to have to alter my approach and create an index.pl file,
> instead?
That is a better option ... index.html will do too: it is the inner first
line that gets your Perl going.

HansH

On 2008-06-12, Dan Rumney <danrumney@warpmail.net> wrote:
> My Apache configuration has the following directives:
>
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
>
><Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
> AllowOverride None
> Options FollowSymLinks
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
></Directory>
>
> I'd like to be able to server a single HTLM file from this directory
> (index.html) to catch requests to the URL http://<servername>/cgi-bin/
>
> However, Apache seems unhappy about this... probably because it's trying
> to execute my html file instead of serving it verbatim.
>
> Are there any configuration changes that I need to make to allow this,
> or am I going to have to alter my approach and create an index.pl file,
> instead?

You can use a DirectoryIndex directive that points outside the current
directory:

DirectoryIndex /index.html

--keith

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>I'd like to be able to server a single
>HTLM file from this directory
>(index.html) to catch requests to the
>URL
>http://<servername>/cgi-bin/

>However, Apache seems unhappy about
>this... probably because it's trying to
>execute my html file instead of serving it
>verbatim.

Try using an index.shtml