CGI Not Working

[mfiendd]

Hey everyone, I'm using Fedora 5 following the How To Guide. I'm not using ISPConfig since the enivorment is only for one site. I managed to setup everything just fine except running CGI scripts. I also changed the path to the folder and moved the folder. I made the appropriate changes in the httpd.conf. I also uncommented the Add Handlers for CGI and added one for PL scripts. I chmod the files to 755 to be executable. When calling the script I get Error 403 Forbidden. To also note, I did enable the use of .htaccess files, I do not have one in the cgi-bin or root html folder.


I have attached the httpd.conf file since it is too large.


I searched the site and found topics on Debian, and when using ISPConfig, nothing usefull for me.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

MfiendD

[falko]

What's the output of ls -la /path/to/cgi-bin?

[mfiendd]

Output of ls -la /path/to/cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 apache apache 4096 Jul 5 18:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 myusername myusername 4096 Jul 5 18:23 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername myusername 379 Jul 5 18:23 hello_world.pl
drwxr-xr-x 2 myusername myusername 4096 Jul 5 16:27 htedit

[falko]

Can you post the real path here?

[mfiendd]

/var/www/html/scripts/cgi-bin/

[falko]

What's the URL you use to call the CGI script? Must be something like http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/hello_world.pl

[mfiendd]

http://ipaddresss/scripts/cgi-bin

I edited the httpd.conf file to change the location of the cgi-bin to the correct path of /var/www/html/scripts/cgi-bin/. Even with the defualt path, nothing was working.

[falko]

But you have

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/html/scripts/cgi-bin/"

in your httpd.conf, so you must use http://ipaddresss/cgi-bin instwad of http://ipaddresss/scripts/cgi-bin.