I have to apologize in a way, because I did not quite catch the fact
that you are installing the program discus. I was reallly tire when I
replied too. Where is it at, so we can take a look at it?
brian
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 01:07:05AM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
> Ok, here's quick and dirty. Dump that mandrake and install Caldera OpenLinux 2.3
> The cgi-bin is in /home/httpd/cgi-bin
>
> Default install requires you to be root to put files there. Make sure they are
> executable.
>
> # chmod a+x
>
> Here is all the cgi's I found on my recent caldera standard install.
>
> # locate cgi
>
> and you will see some default sample cgi's if you installed perl. That's the quickest way
> I can think of.
>
> brian
>
> On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 02:51:17AM +0000, Hubert Littau wrote:
> > Okay, I'm Mr. Desktop/Internet dialup kinda user here, (can you say wannabe?)
> > and now I'm
> > assigned the evaluation of a messageboard program called "Discus" on my
> > localhost . Problem is when I
> > run the setup.cgi from the web browser locally I don't have permission to run
> > cgi scripts.
> > I looked at the Apache docs and they refer to suEXEC, and describe it as
> > deliberately a major
> > pain to set up for security reasons. Frankly I'm not concerned about security
> > on this box.
> > I just want to be able to run .cgi's. Any quick n' easy way to get there from
> > here?
> > Oh yea: Mandrake 6.0 /Intel P I.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Hubert Littau
>
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