Hi, I know this has been asked before but I am still struggling to get it working. When I try to access a perl script the browser attempts to download it. I did try ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/clients/client1/{DOMAIN}/web but no luck. Any help would be much appreciated.
Yes , sorry my question was not well worded. What I am trying to do is run perl scripts outside cgi-bin. So I would like to run example.com/hello/hello.pl for example. I saw an earlier post suggesting ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/clients/client1/{DOMAIN}/web but that has not helped.
You can e.g. try configuring something like "AddHandler cgi-script .pl" for the whole host in the apache directives field of the website. But I've not used cgi scripts in websites for a very long time, so I don't have any current detailed instructions at hand. An alternative can be to use mod_perl (if that still exists) and then configure a perl handler for that site using apache directives field.
Thanks Tim, I managed to get the result I wanted - run perl scripts in a directory other than cgi-bin. On the remote chance someone will find it helpful this is what I added to Apache2 directives. <Directory "/var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/garden"> Options +ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script .pl </Directory> ScriptAlias "/cgi-bin/" "/var/www/clients/client1/web1/web/garden/" where htttp://example.com/garden/prog.pl resides. Cheers & thank you all for your assistance, Andrew
