Re: [Sheflug] Trying to be a standalone server but failing

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Alex Hudson wrote:

> executable, for security reasons), they need to be chmod a+x (for a very
> insecure CGI ;) and you need to make sure it is executed by the PERL
> interpreter (i.e., #!/bin/perl , or something similar, must be the first
> line of the program). Forget Apache, that's not where the problem is -
> from the sounds of it, your httpd is working fine.

To let users execute their own cgis you will have to set up suexec though,
which may or may not be a head ache depending on how the distros set
things up these days.


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