On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:12:14PM -0500, Greg Ward wrote:
> This isn't really a Quixote question, but I figured I'd ask a nice
> friendly group before heading out into the wider world: has anyone had
> much luck running Quixote apps with the Debian apache package (either
> 1.3 or 2.0)?
>
> I'm trying to get it working so I *don't* have to use ugly
> "/cgi-bin/myapp.cgi"-style URLs, but I just cannot get Apache to run a
> CGI script outside of the ScriptAlias dir.  (And never mind getting
> FastCGI working.)  All it will bloody do is show me the source for the
> script.  Anyone seen anything like this before?

Have a look at the 'Dynamic Content with CGI' document in the Apache
docs (http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/cgi.html). There's a
section on CGI outside of ScriptAlias directories.

This works for me with Apache 2.0 on Debian (putting it inside my
default VirtualHost):

Alias /testme   /usr/local/www/cgi-bin

    AddHandler cgi-script   cgi
    Options +ExecCGI


Then http://myserver/testcgi/test.cgi works. I had to add the AddHandler
inside the , even though I have the same one sitting outside.
Otherwise, it gave the error (in the logs) 'Option ExecCGI is turned off
for this directory'.

If you don't want the .cgi extension, start playing around with
RewriteRules. You're probably best listing your cgi scripts, as in

RewriteRule ^/testme/test(.*)   /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/test.cgi?$1
[T=application/x-httpd-cgi,L]

So now http://myserver/testme/test?hello works as expected, and so does
http://myserver/testme/test/hello.

Alternatively,

 ScriptAliasMatch /testme/test(.*)     /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/test.cgi$1

does the same as Alias/Directory/RewriteRule stuff above.

If you don't want to do the above for each script, this seems to work:

 ScriptAliasMatch /testme/([-a-zA-Z0-9]+)(.*) /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/$1.cgi$2

(assuming your script names are semi-sane).

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