[OPEN-ILS-DEV] permission issue on cgi files

[Dan Scott]

Hi M Z:

Check Evergreen's Apache configuration files -- eg.conf and
eg_vhost.conf. If you're running Ubuntu, these will be located in
/etc/apache2/sites-available/ ; if running Gentoo,
/etc/apache2/vhosts.d/.

In eg.conf, the relevant section is:

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# System config CGI scripts go here
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alias /cgi-bin/ "/openils/var/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/openils/var/cgi-bin">
        AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
        AllowOverride None
        Options None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 10.0.0.0/8
        Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Indexes
</Directory>

Modify the "Allow from ..." line to hold the IP address of the system
where you're running your Web browser and trying to access the CGI
scripts -- or modify it to match an entire range of IP addresses, if
you prefer, like "Allow from 142." -- or modify it to "Allow from all"
if you're completely throwing caution to the wind. :)

Once you've made that change, restart Apache and you should be able to
access the CGI scripts.

Dan

On 05/08/07, M Z <michael.hx.z at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> It is no problem when I browser http://eg-server. But when  I try to access
> cgi files, I got error:
>
> ===============
> Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/config.cgi on this server.
>
> ===============(Same with other cgi files)
>
> Just  guess something related to perl. But do not know how to fix it. Any
> help?
>
> Michael
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-- 
Dan Scott
Laurentian University