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Re: How do I configure Apache to run perl scripts? (was : New to perl!)by Caillte (Friar) |
on May 24, 2002 at 15:57 UTC ( [id://169124]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
You need to put two things into your httpd.conf file. First, to tell apache what an executable is you need to put in something like:
This tells apache that any file with the extension cgi or pl is a cgi script. This still doesn't mean that your scripts will run, you also have to tell apache where you intend to run scripts from, what is called your cgi-bin directory.
What this does is, first, tell apache where to look for files when the it gets a request like www.thing.com/cgi-bin/myscript.pl and the other three lines tell apache that it is ok to run scripts found in that directory. Finally, apache runs as a user. Therefore it is important that that user has read and execute (but not write) permissions for these directories and files. This page is intentionally left justified.
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