I have an Apache 2.0 server that I'm trying to set up to serve CGI files. I have a sciptalias set up that points all URL's with the path /cgi-bin/ to the /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/ directory ...

OK, here's the setup:Mandrake 8.2document root /var/www/html/cgi directory /var/www/cgi-binroot owns the cgi directory, with 755 permissionsapache owns the html directory, with 755 permissionsthe ...

The CGI (Common Gateway Interface) defines a way for a web server to interact with external content-generating programs, which are often referred to as CGI programs or CGI scripts. It is the ...

Jack Wallen explains why you'd want to enable the Common Gateway Interface on an Apache server and then shows how to do it.