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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!miller.cs.uwm.edu!bacon From: bacon@cs.uwm.edu (Jason Bacon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: httpd configuration Date: 12 Jun 1997 21:38:47 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5npq97$hmk@uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.139.22 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42938 I'm looking for some documentation on configuring FreeBSD 2.1.7 to allow local CGI programs to be run. I did the basic setup in sysinstall, and it seems to be working fine, but when I try to run a CGI script, (e.g. href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/whatever.cgi") I get "you don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/whatever.cgi on this server". As a shot in the dark, I tried messing with the file and directory permissions and ownership, and also running as root, but I always hit the same roadblock. I'm new to this web server stuff (is it obvious?), so any pointers would be appreciated. There doesn't seem to be any local documentation on the httpd daemon, unless I'm just looking in the wrong places. ( Apropos'd everything I could think of, and looked through the handbook ) Thanks, -Jason