Hi all
I'm not allowed to access any hobbit manpage whose name include "cgi" (for example bb-hostsvc.cgi.1.html); it results in
[Mon Feb 14 17:21:48 2005] [error] [client 10.50.8.55] Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /home/hobbit/hobbit/server/www/help/manpages/man1/bb-hostsvc.cgi.1.html, referer: http://10.50.8.10/hobbit/help/manpages/
in my access_log. I'm running Apache 2.0.52 with the following lines added after installing Hobbit (4.0-rc1 updated to 4.0-rc2) :
Alias /hobbit/ "/home/hobbit/hobbit/server/www/" <Directory "/home/hobbit/hobbit/server/www/"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
ScriptAlias /hobbit-cgi/ "/home/hobbit/hobbit/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/home/hobbit/hobbit/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
ScriptAlias /hobbit-seccgi/ "/home/hobbit/hobbit/cgi-secure/" <Directory "/home/hobbit/hobbit/cgi-secure"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all AuthUserFile /home/hobbit/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd AuthType Basic AuthName "Hobbit Administration" Require valid-user </Directory>
What can I change besides adding "Options ExecCGI" for my /hobbit/ alias ?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
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Frédéric Mangeant
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 05:38:44PM +0100, Frédéric Mangeant wrote:
Hi all
I'm not allowed to access any hobbit manpage whose name include "cgi" (for example bb-hostsvc.cgi.1.html); it results in
[Mon Feb 14 17:21:48 2005] [error] [client 10.50.8.55] Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /home/hobbit/hobbit/server/www/help/manpages/man1/bb-hostsvc.cgi.1.html, referer: http://10.50.8.10/hobbit/help/manpages/
It's Apache that sees the ".cgi" in the filename and mistakes it for a CGI script.
What can I change besides adding "Options ExecCGI" for my /hobbit/ alias ?
Dont do that - it will try to run the man-page as a program, instead of showing it.
I had this problem on one server, and fixed it a while back. I'm not quite sure what I did, but it was probably just finding the line
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
in the Apache config, and removing it. However, this does it on a system-wide basis, so if you have CGI scripts enabled and allow your users to use CGI by creating files named "someting.cgi", then you probably don't want to do that.
Henrik
I'm not allowed to access any hobbit manpage whose name include "cgi" (for example bb-hostsvc.cgi.1.html); it results in
It's Apache that sees the ".cgi" in the filename and mistakes it for a CGI script.
What can I change besides adding "Options ExecCGI" for my /hobbit/ alias ?
Dont do that - it will try to run the man-page as a program, instead of showing it.
I had this problem on one server, and fixed it a while back. I'm not quite sure what I did, but it was probably just finding the line
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
in the Apache config, and removing it. However, this does it on a system-wide basis, so if you have CGI scripts enabled and allow your users to use CGI by creating files named "someting.cgi", then you probably don't want to do that.
As we have some .cgi scripts running, I prefer using man2html.
I've modified $BBHOME/www/help/manpages/index.html like this :
<a href="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?bb-hostsvc.cgi">
instead of
<a href="man1/bb-hostsvc.cgi.1.html">
Maybe you could modify the configure script to ask if man2html is installed, and generate $BBHOME/www/help/manpages/index.html considering the answer ?
Regards,
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Frédéric Mangeant
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 05:38:44PM +0100, Frédéric Mangeant wrote:
I'm not allowed to access any hobbit manpage whose name include "cgi" (for example bb-hostsvc.cgi.1.html)
Anonymous mailed me - he had the same problem and found the solution:
This occurs because by default, apache associates the cgi-script handler with any filename containing ".cgi". I fixed this on my server by changing the following line in my httpd.conf
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi ->to-> AddHandler cgi-script .cgi$
This forces the match to only occur if the ".cgi" is at the end of the filename (duh) :)
Regards, Henrik
Anonymous mailed me - he had the same problem and found the solution:
This occurs because by default, apache associates the cgi-script handler with any filename containing ".cgi". I fixed this on my server by changing the following line in my httpd.conf
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi ->to-> AddHandler cgi-script .cgi$
This forces the match to only occur if the ".cgi" is at the end of the filename (duh) :)
That did the trick. Thanks !
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Frédéric Mangeant
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