CSWS PERL routine fails to execute outside 'standard' directory

[Peter Barkas]

I'm new to CSWS PERL and having trouble trying to execute PERL routines outside of the standard directory:

dev:[VMS$COMMON.APACHE.PERL]

For example, this fails:

http://x.x.x.x/cgi-bin/perl_rules.pl

Whereas, this works:

http://x.x.x.x/perl/perl_rules.pl

As does this:

http://x.x.x.x/cgi-bin/test-cgi-vms.com/

File security is the same on both copies of perl_rules.pl.

Did I miss something in the documentation?

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Your HTTP server admin can configure what you can and can not do. Check with him.

Wim

[Peter Barkas]

Gulp, I am that server admin.

[Hoff]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/cgi.html

[Peter Barkas]

Um, RTFM, always a good starting point.

The fact that perl_rules runs at all seems to me to confirm that csws_perl is working.

The fact that test-cgi-vms.com executes in the default website cgi-bin seems to me to confirm that ScriptAlias is defined correctly.

I think that the above indicates that Apache is set up OK, so CGI set up is not the issue.

I was puzzled that perl_rules does not execute whilst .com and .exes in the same directory do execute.

But now I remember from when setting up SSL, that each component has its own config and each must be coaxed in to life independently.

I'll get me to mod_perl.conf.

[Peter Barkas]

Does PERL follow the yellow brick ScriptAlias?

No, but adding this to mod_perl.conf did the biz:


SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry
Options ExecCGI
Allow from all
PerlSendHeader On



How do I give myself points?

[Peter Barkas]

Pas de lieu un que nous.