Re: CGI binaries for HTML+ forms...

Stephen Boyd Gowing (sbg@nospam.fox-in.socs.uts.edu.au)
Thu, 2 Mar 1995 14:16:07 +1100 (EST)

On Thu, 2 Mar 1995, Christopher Fraser wrote:

> But I thought Paul Mclachlan said:
> >
> > On further examination I believe this is mainly because the
> > executable program has to be flagged as a CGI script somewhere.
> > Apparently if it is placed in the correct directory, or if that
> > directory is flagged or... something...
>
> I think it's /usr/local/etc/httpd/conf/access.conf which specifies which
> bits of the server namespace are allowed to have CGI scripts in them.
> Currently it's just /cgi-bin (which resides in /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin).

If I'd had time to reply I would've said try putting a .cgi extension on
your script. The server will know what to do.

But I haven't had time, so I haven't said that.

sbg