Apache and configuring cgi_bin for each user

I work in a company that has Apache 1.3.22 on a SGI server. Each user
in their home directory has the typical "public_html" folder for web
content. How do you configure Apache so that EACH user can have a
cgi-bin folder that can execute .pl/.cgi files?

I am not an admin of the system, just a user, but I want to be able to
suggest to the admins how to do it (since I question their skill level
at Apache type things). I looked in the
/var/sgi_apache/httpd-outbox/etc/httpd.conf file (there is no
/etc/httpd.conf) and found:

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir public_html
</ItModule>

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

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

But this will only allow cgi-bin content to be run out of ONE MASTER
directory. How do you configure Apache for each user ?

Thanks.

Sean wrote:
> I work in a company that has Apache 1.3.22 on a SGI server. Each user
> in their home directory has the typical "public_html" folder for web
> content. How do you configure Apache so that EACH user can have a
> cgi-bin folder that can execute .pl/.cgi files?

I looked in the
> /var/sgi_apache/httpd-outbox/etc/httpd.conf file (there is no
> /etc/httpd.conf) and found:
>
> <IfModule mod_userdir.c>
> UserDir public_html
> </ItModule>
>
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
>
> <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
> AllowOverrride None
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> </Directory>


I have only one directory, you may have trouble getting an admin to
allow more, most are terrified of cgi's in other dir's. Anyway, it's an
option, so a directory might look like:

<Directory /var/www/more-cgi-stuff/>
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Deny from idiots.org
Options ExecCGI
</Directory>

I'm not sure if it matters WHERE the directory is. Your example above is
more to allow the cgi dir to be aliased, not necessarily to allow cgi
(it does that too, but a cgi enabled directory doesn't have to be in the
aliases section to work, I think it only needs the Option enabled for
cgi.) You might try to slip ExecCGI into your directorie's Options field
when the admin's not looking! Reading about mod_cgi on the Apache site
http://www.apache.org may help too.



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