Hello, I would like my documentroot in my virtual host directive to also be able to execute perl scripts (instead of the standard scriptaliase cgi-bin directive).
I want my perl script to be index.html:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: text/html \n\n";
print "Testing 123";
exit 0;
I tested by adding the following virtual host to my apache httpd.conf file:
<VirtualHost ip.ip.ip.ip>
ServerAdmin email@somewhere.net
DocumentRoot /var/sites/mysite
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/sites/mysite"
ErrorLog /var/sites/mysite//logs/er
</VirtualHost>
I tested this but the index.html file doesn't seem to execute (just prints out the text as if it were a text file). Any way to make this simply work?
The permissions on index.html are 755 (-rwxr-xr-x). I tested this on one of my cgi-bin directories and the script itself works fine, but only in a different cgi-bin directory.
A simple way to think of this is (How do I make DocumentRoot safely execute perl scripts?)
Thank you for any help!
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The solution to the issue is:
<VirtualHost ip.ip.ip.ip>
ServerAdmin email@somewhere.net
#DocumentRoot /var/sites/mysite
ScriptAlias /index.html "/var/sites/mysite/index.h
ErrorLog /var/sites/mysite//logs/er
</VirtualHost>
the /index.html "/var/sites/mysite/index.h
Thanks for all the great help experts! ;-)
One last thing:
<VirtualHost ip.ip.ip.ip>
ServerAdmin email@somewhere.net
ScriptAlias /index.html "/var/sites/mysite/index.h
DocumentRoot /var/sites/mysite
ErrorLog /var/sites/mysite//logs/er
</VirtualHost>
This will make only index.html executable and the rest of the html in the base site directory will work as normal.
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by: dr34m3rsPosted on 2009-11-03 at 06:05:32ID: 25729002
The solution to that issue is:
<VirtualHost ip.ip.ip.ip>
ServerAdmin email@somewhere.net
DocumentRoot /var/sites/mysite
ScriptAlias / "/var/sites/mysite/"
ErrorLog /var/sites/mysite//logs/er
</VirtualHost>
Also, I forgot about the trailing "/" on the end of the ScriptAlias.
The new issue is:
If you just put in the site name http://sitename.com/ you get a forbidden for /
If you put in the path to the script it works http://sitename.com/index.
How to tell apache to follow to index.html like it normally does for docroot?