Apache web server and CGI

[Peter van Kampen]

In article <81a41dd.0408092306.264beed at posting.google.com>, Lad wrote:
> [Tue Aug 10 08:51:32 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (2)No such file
> or directory: script not found or unable to stat: c:/program
> files/apache group/apache/cgi-bintest.py
> 
> The name of script is test.py and is in cgi-bin (Apache subdirectory).

In my experience cgi-bin is rarely just a subdir of apache's www-root. The
name cgi-bin is in itself not some magical name that 'turns CGI on'. You
have to configure it on your httpd.conf. Here's a relevant bit of mine:

#
# ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
# ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
# documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and
# run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the client.
# The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives as to
# Alias.
#
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

#
# "/usr/lib/cgi-bin" could be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
# CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
#
<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/>
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Also just to be sure the first line of test.py should be sth like this on
windows:

#! c:\path\to\python.exe

> BTW, how can I set up a different directory for cgi scripts? For
> example I would like to have all my scripts in
> C:\Scripts\MyScripts

This is probably clear by now...

Hth,

PterK

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Peter van Kampen
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