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Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
: I'm trying to configure Apache which was installed with Red Hat 5.2.  I
: need it to do two things:
: 1) Allow access to user's public_html directories.

UserDir public_html
This is in the distro config files.  Well commented files, I might add.

: 2) Execute anything with a .cgi or .pl extension.

Yes, but you also need to have to have the correct modules loaded or
compiled in. Make sure you have modcgi.  I'm not sure how to handle
perl, but if you install modperl, it looks a little like this:

<Files *.pl>
 SetHandler perl-script
 PerlHandler Apache::Registry
 Options ExecCGI
</Files>

Also, from the same comments, you might look into the Action directive.

: I think the Apache Documentation sucks.  You'd think obvious things like
: this would be in the FAQ's.

I was a little confused about how to get modperl working.  The INSTALL
docs don't make it easy.  But I got it to work.  As for all the other
things, I didn't have to change much at all.  It was all already in the
httpd.conf files, and I just had to tweak them and uncomment a couple
blocks.

I prefer PHP3, myself...

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