Re: [users@httpd] Serve /var/www and public_html

["David Salisbury" <salisbury@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, you'd probably have to script alias every user's directory as well as the /var/... directory.

But, you should be able to get around that with a

AddHandler cgi-script cgi

in your conf file.

-ds

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Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 12:39 AM
Subject: [users@httpd] Serve /var/www and public_html


> Running Gentoo linux
> Apache/2.0.58
>
> What I am trying to do is probably pretty common but I am having some
> confusion getting it working.
>
> My aim is to run a lan wide site at /var/www and use 
> /home/MYUSER/public_html for experimenting with getting some cgi stuff
> working. 
>
> It seems I can get one or the other to work with full execution of cgi
> but not both.  I'm not sure what the main factor is but I kind of
> think it might be setting the ScriptAlias.
>
> I want to be able to execute cgi anywhere under /var/www/localhost/
> and anywhere under /home/MYUSER/public_html.
>
> That is, to have apache know about /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/
> but still run cgi at /home/MYUSER/public_html/exp/some.cgi and
> http://my.host.lan/some/dir/my.cgi.
>
> In the various setups I've created and tried one of two things has
> happened. 
>
> 1) apache doesn't know about /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin and fails to
>   find it at http://my.host.lan/cgi-bin/
> But I have full use of http://my.host.lan/~myuser/exp/some.cgi
>
> Or
>
> 2) http://my.host.lan/cgi-bin/ is findable and cgi under it and
>   http://my.host.lan/some/dir/some.cgi
>   execute just fine
>
>   But  http://my.host.lan/~myuser/exp/some.cgi is just displayed as a
>   file.
>
> How can I get both things to work as I'd like? 
>
>
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