On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Benedict simon <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > I have recently install backuppc and the daemon running fine > but when i access it through my browser after askin me for my username and > password i get the followin message > > > You don't have permission to access /BackupPC_Admin on this server. > where Backup_Admin is the cgi file > > and my server error is > > Options ExecCGI is off in this directory/var/www/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin > > > i have turned it on > > <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"> > SetHandler perl-script > PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry > PerlOptions +ParseHeaders > Options +ExecCGI > Order deny,allow > Allow from all > AllowOverride None > AuthName "Backup Admin" > AuthType Basic > AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/.htpasswd > Require valid-user > </Directory> The error message is clear and probably isn't lying. So check for other Options directives in your config files that may be overriding the one for /var/www/cgi-bin. Remember that Options directives turn off all options by default, unless they use "+" or "-" on all their arguments. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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