From: Fergus Donohue (Fergus.Donohue at domain eolach.com)
Date: Fri 17 Aug 2001 - 12:04:27 IST
Hi Shane,
There are two things you need to do here, one is enable the cgi handler
for all .cgi files and the second is to have the server serve index.cgi
if it exists in the directory. Ok, here's a rough, untested cut....
1). CGI handler.
from httpd.conf
# If you want to use server side includes, or CGI outside
# ScriptAliased directories, uncomment the following lines.
#
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
You may have to load the mod_cgi.so or recompile if you have a very
trimmed down server, you may also want to look at suexec if this feature
is to be available for shell account users.
2). To serve index.cgi
Again httpd.conf....
#
# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML
# directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces.
#
DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html index.htm index.cgi
I think that should do it, let me know how you get on.
All the best,
Fergus.
"RYAN, SHANE(DUBLIN)" wrote:
>
> just wondering, if I have apache
> set up on a box, can I have index.cgi
> as the main-page to my site and
> have it execute (rather than just display
> its contents...)?
>
> It would be handier for me to do this
> in cgi than php or anything else (because
> I have *some* basic knowledge of
> cgi but none of php).
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