Re: setting up Apache2 to execute cgi-bin perl scripts [SOLVED]

From	Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: setting up Apache2 to execute cgi-bin perl scripts [SOLVED]
Date	2020-07-31 18:50 +0200
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On 2020-07-31 11:32, Henning Follmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:12:53AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
>> My server is running Debian/Stable on an AMD64 system.
>>
>> I'm trying to set up its local Apache2 service to execute cgi-bin scripts
>> but I'm having some problems getting it to work.
>>
>> I note that /etc/apache2/conf-enabled contains a link to
>> /etc/apache2/conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf so I'm assuming that cgi-bin
>> is enabled. The .conf contains a ScriptAlias directive which I believe
>> redirects /cgi-bin/ to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ but that's as far as I can get.
>>
>> I don't want to tamper with the conf-available scripts so I went along with
>> their settings. First I tried to link the script I want executed to the file
>> in the site's public_html/cgi-bin/ folder but that didn't work. Next I tried
>> copying the file to /usr/lib/cgi-bin but got the same results. Even when I
>> changed the ownership of the directory and its files from root:root to
>> www-data:www-data, the script still doesn't execute.
>>
>> Instead when I click on the page's submit button, I get a dialog box asking
>> me what program I want to use to open the file (which gives me the option of
>> Kate).
>>
>> To be clear, the perl script is marked a+x and it does work on the external
>> web server that I use to host the live site. Also, I have restarted the
>> apache2 service multiple times even though the config has not changed.
>>
>> Can anyone figure out what I'm missing?
>>
> Did you enable it?
> sudo a2enmod cgi
>
>
> -H
>
That did the trick. Thanks.

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setting up Apache2 to execute cgi-bin perl scripts Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-07-31 17:20 +0200
  Re: setting up Apache2 to execute cgi-bin perl scripts Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-07-31 17:40 +0200
    Re: setting up Apache2 to execute cgi-bin perl scripts [SOLVED] Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-07-31 18:50 +0200

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