[thelist] locking cgi-bin

Michael Imamura gte255n at prism.gatech.edu
Sun Dec 2 19:10:59 CST 2001


On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Richard Bennett wrote:
> The directory structure is like this:
> 
> var/www/cgi-bin/
> 
> There's an .htacces file and a .htpasswd file in cgi-bin, they've been
> chmodded, and the path reads like this:

Sounds like the directory may not be set up to allow overrides. Try adding
this to your server config:

<Directory /var/www/cgi-bin>
  AllowOverride All
</Directory>

You can change "All" to "AuthConfig" if you just want to limit the power
of .htaccess to authentication.

Hope this helps.

               - Michael Imamura   mimamura at resnet.gatech.edu
                 LUG at GT Web Guy    http://www.lugatgt.org/





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