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Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 22:33:02 -0400
From: Joshua Slive <joshua@slive.ca>
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Subject: Re: CGI and ScriptAlias Alternatives
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Ron Wingfield wrote:

> I'm having difficulty executing the counter.pl in the common directory.  
> If I add a ScriptAlias, e.g.,
>  
>   ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/   "/www/cgi-bin/perl/"
>  
> to the httpd.conf container for the VirtualHost, apples.com.
>  
> 
> After execution of the index.htm file in the host's DocumentRoot 
> directory, /www/vhosts/apples.com (as directed in the httpd.conf file), 
> the error-log message contains:  "invalid CGI ref 
> "www/cgi-bin/perl/counter.pl".  

This sounds conspicuously like you are using SSI, not direct CGI.  The 
error message is from the SSI.

Start by requesting the cgi script directly (as in 
http://example.com/cgi-bin/perl/counter.pl) and make sure that works.

Once that works, then try to get it to work in SSI.  Forget about "#exec 
cgi".  You should never use that.  Instead, use <!--#include 
virtual="/cgi-bin/perl/counter.pl" -->.

Joshua.


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