I thought you were supposed to use slashes "/" rather than back-slashes"\" in httpd.conf, even on Windows servers. What about replacing "D:\Apache2\htdocs\sample" with "D:/Apache2/htdocs/sample" ?? -ascs ________________________________ From: mohan devanoor [mailto:mohan.devanoor@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 11:10 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [users@httpd] problem regarding cgi permissions(asap) hello all, i have used <Directory "D:\Apache2\htdocs\sample"> Options +ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl </Directory> to give cgi permissions to sample directory . it is working fine . But i should get access to sample as in the case of cgi-bin i.e http://localhost/sample/ shouldnot be permitted but i get the list of cgi(as in the case of http://localhost/cgi-bin/) , perl programs. ________________________________ Bring words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/PMHM3/*http://photomail.mail.yahoo.com> - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx