Re: [cgiwrap-users] Can't get it to work

[Jeremy C. <cg...@jd...>]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:41:23AM +0100, Sasa Ebach wrote:
>  > Then change your configuration to just
>  >   AddHandler       cgiwrap        .cgi .pl
>  >   Action           cgiwrap        /cgiwrap
>  >   ScriptAlias      /cgiwrap/      /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/
> 
> Yes, but will I be able to call /cgi-bin/script.cgi or will I have to call 
> it like /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/username/script.cgi which is what I wanted to 
> avoid in the first place?

Neither.  The URL you'd want to access is http://whatever/cgiwrap/username/whatever.cgi

What needs to be made clear here is that most of the time the
ScriptAlias definition contains the username you want to run scripts as.
Meaning, it's primarily used in the case of a VirtualHost.

Here's a snippet from our production Apache configuration:

<VirtualHost www:80>
  ServerName www.blah.com
  ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/mainsite/"
  ScriptAliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)/cgi-bin/(.*)   "/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/$1/$2"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost www:80>
  ServerName whatever.blah.com
  ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/   "/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bob/"
</VirtualHost>

The above configuration permits the following things:

http://www.blah.com/cgi-bin/mycgi.cgi        <-- runs as user "mainsite"
http://www.blah.com/~mary/cgi-bin/test.cgi   <-- runs as user "mary"
http://whatever.blah.com/cgi-bin/hello.cgi   <-- runs as user "bob"

In this configuration, cgiwrap was configured with the following flags:

	--with-httpd-user=www
	--with-install-group=www
	--with-cgi-dir=cgi-bin
	--without-nph

The filesystem layout would be identical for all 3 accounts (mainsite,
mary, and bob): a cgi-bin directory in their $HOME, permissions of 711
(or possibly 710 depending upon how you have groups set up on your
system).

The CGIs themselves (mycgi.cgi, etc.) would be 700.

Make sense?

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