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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:35:32 +1100
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From: Jack Andrews <effbiae@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] simple newbie

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Joost de Heer <joost@sanguis.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> - Is there a special reason why you want to use .htaccess instead of
> adding the directive to the central configuration?

no, not really...


so i tried adding:

<Directory /var/www>
 Options +ExecCGI
 AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
</Directory>

to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

and

  sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

then when

   wget localhost
--2011-01-14 01:32:09--  http://localhost/
Resolving localhost... ::1, 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost|::1|:80... failed: Connection refused.
Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2011-01-14 01:32:09 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

and the log says:

[Fri Jan 14 01:32:54 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.3] Options
ExecCGI is off in this directory: /var/www/index.cgi


thank you for your patience,


jack.

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