Trying to make CGI work from anywhere

Want to get my home Apache server working like SDF's
so that I can test web pages changes at home before uploading.
SSI that works at SDF (and at my former Rootsweb site) does
not work at home. I haven't tried CGI on SDF and Rootsweb
didn't allow it, but at home,
action="program.cgi"
causes Apache to display the actual script when the form
is submitted.

The lines I changed trying to make this work are:

LoadModule includes_module libexec/httpd/mod_include.so
LoadModule cgi_module libexec/httpd/mod_cgi.so
AddModule mod_include.c
AddModule mod_cgi.c
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

"Wesley Groleau" <wesgroleau@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
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> Want to get my home Apache server working like SDF's
> so that I can test web pages changes at home before uploading.
> SSI that works at SDF (and at my former Rootsweb site) does
> not work at home. I haven't tried CGI on SDF and Rootsweb
> didn't allow it, but at home,
> action="program.cgi"
> causes Apache to display the actual script when the form
> is submitted.
>
> The lines I changed trying to make this work are:
>
> LoadModule includes_module libexec/httpd/mod_include.so
> LoadModule cgi_module libexec/httpd/mod_cgi.so
> AddModule mod_include.c
> AddModule mod_cgi.c
> AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
> AddType text/html .shtml
> AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

Have you added this to your directory statement?

Options Indexes +ExecCGI

Rach

"Wes Groleau" <groleau@freeshell.org> wrote in message
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> rach wrote:
> > Have you added this to your directory statement?
> >
> > Options Indexes +ExecCGI
>
> No, I haven't. Not sure what it means.
> I know I don't want indexes on--I prefer
> to explicitly offer selected files.
>
> The second one is required for any directory
> that contains a script?
>
> I'll try it. Security risks?
> (None here, since port 80 is blocked
> to the outside, but I'd still like to know)

Yes, that was a typo, I meant to remove indexes from that line but neglected
to. And I forgot to mention the add handler. So do it like:

Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl

This will then allow cgi to be executed in any folder as long as the files
are chmod a+x.

Rach

> Yes, that was a typo, I meant to remove indexes from that line but neglected
> to. And I forgot to mention the add handler. So do it like:
>
> Options +ExecCGI
> AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl
>
> This will then allow cgi to be executed in any folder as long as the files
> are chmod a+x.

I've got the "AddHandler" (and all the other ones
mentioned by the documentation) but the doc didn't
mention ExecCGI.

I put it in, but must restart before testing.

>>I've got the "AddHandler" (and all the other ones
>>mentioned by the documentation) but the doc didn't
>>mention ExecCGI.
>>
>>I put it in, but must restart before testing.
>
> This was something I only learned the other day configuring my FreeBSD box
> to do the same. I got it from here:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/how...ml#configuring and look under
> the heading of "Explicitly using Options to permit CGI execution" in that

Blast. Still doesn't work! Off to read the new doc (thanks for the link)

"Wes Groleau" <groleau@freeshell.org> wrote in message
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> Wes Groleau wrote:
> > Blast. Still doesn't work! Off to read the new doc (thanks for the
link)
>
> The reason it didn't work after following your advice
> is because I was bypassing Apache with the "go to file"
> option, i.e., file:///Volumes/etc
>
> Once I made that directory an alias, the CGI worked.
>
> The SSI still doesn't work....
>

SSI is my next project to learn.

Rach

"Wes Groleau" <groleau@freeshell.org> wrote in message
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> Wes Groleau wrote:
> > Blast. Still doesn't work! Off to read the new doc (thanks for the
link)
>
> The reason it didn't work after following your advice
> is because I was bypassing Apache with the "go to file"
> option, i.e., file:///Volumes/etc
>
> Once I made that directory an alias, the CGI worked.
>
> The SSI still doesn't work....
>

I got SSI now working. I added index.shtml to the DirectoryIndex line and
the uncommented out these lines:

AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml

Then added +Includes to the Options in my directory statement. It's pretty
kewl.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/how...ml#configuring

Next thing I gotta learn is mod_rewrite.

Rach

rach wrote:
> I got SSI now working. I added index.shtml to the DirectoryIndex line and
> the uncommented out these lines:
>
> [snip].
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/how...ml#configuring
>
> Next thing I gotta learn is mod_rewrite.

Sounds like you're just one step ahead of me.
I should just follow you around and I'll
never have to RTFM again.

:-)