Re: Prompted to Open or Save CGI Program -- configuration issue?

Vivek, thanks for the great trouble shooting pointers. As for the apache server settings, I'm still struggling. Here's what the original looks like:

<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-
+bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
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I also tried a number of modifications:

<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-
+bin">
    Options ExecCGI
    SetHandler cgi-script
</Directory>
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Another:

<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-
+bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Includes ExecCGI
</Directory>
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I also did a few more iterations of these, but no to no avail. I should also note that I think the conf files for the different apache versions are quite a bit differnt. For example my file doesn't have the <virtualhost *> command. Any ideas, would be much appreciated.

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Re^2: Prompted to Open or Save CGI Program -- configuration issue? by olus (Curate) on Mar 17, 2009 at 15:55 UTC
`<Directory "PATH FOR YOUR CGI SCRIPTS"> Options ExecCGI SetHandler cgi-script </Directory>` [download] is instructing apache to treat the files found at that particular directory as Perl scripts. So, write there the location of the scripts, and make sure they are executable. my file doesn't have the <virtualhost > command* Maybe your `httpd.conf` doesn't have the `virtualhost` directive but, if you look at the dir where your `httpd.conf` file is, you will find a few directories like `vhosts, extra, or other ....`. Peeking into the files in there you'll probably find that directive. There are different ways to configure vhosts, I suggest you read some introductory material on Apache.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Prompted to Open or Save CGI Program -- configuration issue? by moritz (Cardinal) on Mar 17, 2009 at 12:55 UTC
So are you CGI scripts in the /cgi-bin/ directory?	[reply]
Re^3: Prompted to Open or Save CGI Program -- configuration issue? by neutron (Sexton) on Mar 18, 2009 at 01:48 UTC
Yes. Well at least in a subdirectory under cgi-bin. And they're both in same subdirectory.	[reply]