On Thu, January 13, 2011 13:28, Jack Andrews wrote: > hi guys, > > a total newbie question. > > i have created a cgi script 'index.cgi' in /var/www: > > root@duo:/var/www# ls -l > total 8 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 69 2011-01-13 23:09 index.cgi > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 177 2011-01-13 22:31 index.html > > and i've created a .htaccess: > > root@duo:/var/www# cat .htaccess > Options +ExecCGI > > then i remove index.html and run: > > root@duo:/var/www# wget localhost && cat index.html > --2011-01-13 23:14:51-- http://localhost/ > Resolving localhost... ::1, 127.0.0.1 > Connecting to localhost|::1|:80... failed: Connection refused. > Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 69 [text/plain] > Saving to: `index.html' > > 100%[======================================>] 69 --.-K/s in > 0s > > 2011-01-13 23:14:51 (9.21 MB/s) - `index.html' saved [69/69] > > #!/bin/bash > cat <<EOF > Content-type: text/html > > hi there from cgi > EOF > > note that apache has given me the contents of index.cgi, > not the result of running it: > > root@duo:/var/www# ./index.cgi > Content-type: text/html > > hi there from cgi - Is there a special reason why you want to use .htaccess instead of adding the directive to the central configuration? - Do you have the proper AllowOverride? Joost --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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