From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-07-02T02:13:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ajax with Ruby problem


On Jun 28, 2007, at 8:23 PM, Gale CC wrote:

>
> I'm sorry to spam the board like this, but I had to correct myself on
> what I wrote before. I had a new insight which conflicts with what I
> wrote before.
>
>> No, I dont think just pre-pending "/cgi-bin" would do any magic.
>
> Yes, adding /cgi-bin does do the magic! I realized this after playing
> around with Apache and html scripts for a while today. I noticed that
> the httpd.conf had the line :
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/cgi-bin/
>
> This means that whatever that is inside
> /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/cgi-bin/ would now simply be referred to as
> /cgi-bin no matter where you access it from. So whatever I wrote  
> before
> is completely wrong - sorry about that.
>
> Thanks,
> Gale
>

Thanks for posting your solution! It may be useful to somebody else.
I thought it might be something like that. I have had my own  
difficulties with Apache configuration before! (and still do from  
time to time)