Apache: Setting DocumentRoot to cgi directory results in downloading file instead of executing it.
- by fastmonkeywheels
I have a c-compiled CGI application that I need to execute from the DocumentRoot of my Apache server. The CGI file is called index.cgi and is located at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/index.cgi.
I have the following Directory definition
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/">
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
DirectoryIndex index.cgi
</Directory>
I have the following VirtualHost setting:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /usr/lib/cgi-bin
# ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
If I go to 127.0.0.1 or 127.0.0.1/index.cgi I get prompted to download the index.cgi file, however if I enable the ScriptAlias in the vhost configuration block and go to 127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/index.cgi I see the output of my CGI application.
I had originally solved this problem with mod_rewrite, however that worked on my test system the target (embedded) doesn't have that module available so I'm looking at another route (again).
