[ILUG] ScriptAlias for a vhost

[adam beecher]

> Right basically I've got a vhost in httpd.conf that goes
> something along the lines of..
>
Well, first of all, you can save some space in your httpd.conf - it's fills
up fast, no matter how much you think it won't. Like, unless you need the
comments, lose 'em. Also, you can put all the extentions for AddHandler (for
the same type of handler that is) in the one directive:

<VirtualHost www.phil-the-nerd.org>
DocumentRoot /home/phil/public_html
ServerName www.phil-the-nerd.org
Options ExecCGI Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .py .sh .pl
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml .html
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/phil/public_html/cgi-bin/
Alias /include/ /home/phil/public_html/include/
Alias /img/ /home/phil/public_html/img/
</VirtualHost>

> Everything else works perfectly including the last two aliases
> apart from the cgi-bin when I do a
> http://localhost/~phil/cgi-bin/test.pl that works but
> http://www.phil-the-nerd.org/cgi-bin/test.pl doesn't..
> errors I get when trying to accesss it via the web are an "Internal Server
> Error" (500).
>
> Error I get in the webserver logs is...
> [Fri May  5 01:06:38 2000] [error] [client 159.134.207.156]
> Premature end of
> script headers: /home/phil/public_html/cgi-bin/test.pl
>
Ordinarily I'd say it's an Apache permissions problem, but the fact that
you're getting a "Premature end of script headers" error implies that the
script is *trying* to run, but there's an error in there somewhere - a
missing semicolon or summat similar. But the fact that it runs in your
UserDir and dunt in the VirtualHost knocks that on the head. So I still
reckon it may be permissions. Did you set up the UserDir Directory with the
~ tilde?:

<Directory /home/users/~*/public_html>

That'll probably screw it up anyway. If not though, the best thing is
probably to post your httpd.conf and the script saved with a .txt extenstion
on the web somewhere so we can have a look at it.

adam