Thanks again for the suggestion Mark, but I already have a Addhandler option, and I even moved it inside of the <Directory> for that directory and still didn't help... Concur with the reconfigure Cricket idea, just hoping that it's easier to fix apache than cricket! ;-) Steve --- Mark Lavi <mlavi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Off the top of my head, you may wish to: > > move your GIFs out of that directory and reconfigure > Cricket :) > > or more likely: > > change your httpd configuration to the CGI as a file > type: > AddHandler cgi-script .cgi > > (and add any other appropriate file type extenders > if need be). > > That, along with the file permissions we already > discussed, should help > avoid the executing GIFs. > > --Mark > Mark Lavi, Enterprise Web Management Team @ SGI > mailto:mlavi@xxxxxxx || phone:+1-650-933-7707 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Truxton [mailto:struxton@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 2:39 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Help: GIFs that are in > same directory as PERL > script are being executed > > Thanks Mark, but that was one of the things that I > tried & didn't work. Just complains that it doesn't > have enough permissions- if I change to 666, same > error. > Here's the error message: > "[Fri Feb 23 06:13:41 2007] [error] [client > 10.19.83.200] file permissions deny s > erver execution: > /home/sanscript/public_html/cricket/images/cricket-sm.gif" > --- Mark Lavi <mlavi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Try taking the execute permissions off all of the > > non-CGI files. > > > > Eg. cd > /home/sanscript/public_html/cricket/images/; > > chmod a-x *gif > > > > --Mark > > Mark Lavi, Enterprise Web Management Team @ SGI > > mailto:mlavi@xxxxxxx || phone:+1-650-933-7707 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Stephen Truxton [mailto:struxton@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 2:28 PM > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Help: GIFs that are in same > > directory as PERL > > script are being executed > > > > Hola! :-) > > > > Environment: > > Apache 1.3 running on Suse Linux 9.0. > > > > Background: > > - Because of my Cricket installation, I've had to > > put > > GIFs in the same directory as some perl scripts. > > - The perl scripts are in a user directory so I > had > > to modify suse_public_html.conf to allow scripts > to > > execute. > > > > Issue: > > - The perl scripts execute just dandy, but Apache > > is > > interpreting the GIFs in that directory as > > executables. At least this is how I'm > interpreting > > the messages in error_log: > > "[Fri Feb 23 05:56:28 2007] [error] (8)Exec format > > error: exec of /home/sanscript > > /public_html/cricket/images/rrdtool.gif failed > > [Fri Feb 23 05:56:28 2007] [error] [client > > 10.19.83.200] Premature end of script headers: > > > /home/sanscript/public_html/cricket/images/rrdtool.gif" > > > > Has anyone seen this before & know how to correct? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Stephen Truxton > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > ____________ > > No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go > > with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. 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