From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-10-10T04:05:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Setting up simple CGI on Ubuntu

On 10/6/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > On 10/5/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > TRANS wrote:
> > > > I've done all this numerous times before but, sigh, apparently I'm
> > > > forgetting something. I'm just trying to serve up a straight CGI
> > > > script, nothing fancy.
> > > >
> > > > Running Ubuntu Apache2:
> > > >
> > > > <VirtualHost *>
> > > >    #SetEnv RAILS_ENV development
> > > >    ServerName lilwiki
> > > >    DocumentRoot /serve/www/lilwiki/
> > > >    ErrorLog /home/trans/file/projects/PsyTower/lilwiki/log/apache.log
> > > >
> > > >    <Directory /home/trans/file/projects/PsyTower/lilwiki/public/>
> > > >       Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
> > > >       AddHandler cgi-script .rbx
> > > >       AllowOverride all
> > > >       Order allow,deny
> > > >       Allow from all
> > > >    </Directory>
> > > > </VirtualHost>
> > > >
> > > > By all accounts (I just spent the last 40 minutes seaching the web and
> > > > mailing-list) the above should be all I need. But all it does is serve
> > > > up .rbx files as plain text --it doesn't execute them. What am I missing?
> > >
> > > It's always some stupid little thing:
> > >
> > >        AddHandler cgi-script .rbx
> > >
> > > Needs to be in the VirtualHost body, not the Directory body. Lovely, no
> > > warnings, no errors. nothing. Just doesn't work. Five hours wasted on
> > > dribble. Yep that's about par for Me and Apache configuration. Ergh...
> >
> > Well according to the apache documentation, AddHandler can be in the
> > following contexts:  server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess
> >
> > On the other hand, I'm not sure how you are getting from your document root
> >
> >    /serve/www/lilwiki/
> >
> > to
> >
> >    /home/trans/file/projects/PsyTower/lilwiki/public/
> >
> > in the absense of any apparent Alias directive or anything else which
> > would cause Apache to look there.
>
> Hmm... yea, guess that looks odd. But it's just a symlink.
>
>    /serve/www/lilwiki/ =>
> /home/trans/file/projects/PsyTower/lilwiki/public/

I suspected that, and I also suspect that Apache is completely aware
of the link and only knows about /serve/www/lilwiki, so the Directory
directive never has any effect.


-- 
Rick DeNatale

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