[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# strace -f /etc/init.d/apache2 start 2>&1 |fgrep test.pl [pid 18057] read(19, "GET /cgi-bin/test.pl HTTP/1.1\r\nH"..., 8000) = 422 [pid 18056] read(19, "GET /cgi-bin/test.pl HTTP/1.1\r\nH"..., 8000) = 418 [pid 18056] stat64("/home/nick/public_html/cgi-bin/test.pl", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0777, st_size=60, ...}) = 0 [pid 18056] open("/home/nick/public_html/cgi-bin/test.pl/.htaccess", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
as for how the site points, here is how it's handled (i've replaced my IP and domain for security reasons): <Virtualhost 0.0.0.0> ServerName domain.com ServerAlias domain.com DocumentRoot /home/nick/public_html CustomLog /home/nick/access_log combined ScriptLog /home/nick/script_log </VirtualHost> And in case it was missed, in my public_html directory there is a .htaccess file which contains the following: addhandler cgi-script .pl On 9/25/07, Stefan Fritsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Nick Price wrote: > > I had 755 set, but I tried 777 as well on the scripts. > > As for the directory, it is physically located under my public_html > > directory in my ~, and I use .htaccess with addhandler cgi-script > > .pl As user www-data i can execute the script. > > Try starting apache with > > strace -f /etc/init.d/apache2 start 2>&1 |fgrep test.pl > > (test.pl being the name of your script, of course) and do the request. > What ist the output? You might have to install the package strace > first, and you will have to kill apache from a different shell after > the test. > > > Scriptlog doesn't give me anything we didn't already know: > > > > %% [Tue Sep 25 15:58:57 2007] GET /cgi-bin/test.pl HTTP/1.1 > > %% 500 /home/nick/public_html/cgi-bin/test.pl > > This is strange, the request does not contain ~nick. > Is /cgi-bin/test.pl the request you do in the browser? How is it > mapped to /home/nick/public_html/cgi-bin/test.pl ? > > Cheers, > Stefan >