From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 13:58:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (hq-port-89.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A7915584 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 13:58:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09292; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:04:32 -0700 Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:04:32 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Doug White Cc: Donald Wilde , Vince Gonzalez , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apache chokes on compiled CGI? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's not true -- if you have a ScriptAlias directive for your cgi-bin directory, all files are treated as CGIs. That's how the cgi-bin directory is supposed to be set up, the name 'cgi-bin' doesn't convey any special properties. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet On Mon, 17 May 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 15 May 1999, Donald Wilde wrote: > > > Recompiling Apache solved things, although I also let it create new conf > > files and re-edited them to match my config, so perhaps something in > > there was amiss, as you suggested. > > > > Interestingly enough, my FreeBSD-based ISP has the same problem. > > Note that Apache 3.X, by default, requires cgi's to have a .cgi extension. > Otherwise it thinks it's a text file, even in the cgi-bin/ directory. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message