Apache Document Root point to cgi file

[Dr Small]

I am trying to setup a VirtualHost to point to the sqwebmail cgi file, so when I access mail.domain.com, it takes me directly to the webmail, or cgi script.

Anyone know how to do this?

I have in my VirtualHost container, right now:
#Mail.mycroftserver.homelinux.org
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin drsmall@mycroftserver.homelinux.org
DocumentRoot cgi-bin/sqwebmail
ServerName mail.mycroftserver.homelinux.org
</VirtualHost>


I have a symbolic link from /opt/lampp/cgi-bin/sqwebmail to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/sqwebmail and the permission on the latter are:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7432 2007-02-22 22:48 /usr/lib/cgi-bin/sqwebmail

Yet, when I access it in the browser (mail.domain.com), it says:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Can anyone tell me where I have made a mistake?

Dr Small

[geertn]

Try specifying the full path to your documentroot.

Furthermore, you have to enable execcgi if it's not already enabled:

<Directory /opt/lampp/cgi-bin/>
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin>
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

If it still doesn't work check your /var/log/apache2/error.log

[Dr Small]

Trying what you said, produced this:
[error] [client ] File does not exist: /opt/lampp/cgi-bin/sqwebmail/

The reason the file does not exist, is because the DocumentRoot is apparently trying to read it as a directory.

So, I have been playing around with the settings, trying different things, and came up with this:

<Directory "/opt/lampp/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI -MultiViews
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>



<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>


And then I get this error:
[error] [client ] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /opt/lampp/cgi-bin/sqwebmail

[Dr Small]

Problem Solved.
And here is how I solved it:

In /opt/lampp/cgi-bin/ I created a new directory called "sqwebmail" and moved my Symbolic Link into this directory and called the file index.cgi

Now, in my httpd.conf file, I wrote:
<Directory "/opt/lampp/cgi-bin/sqwebmail/">
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI -MultiViews FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
DirectoryIndex index.cgi
</Directory>

And here was my VirtualHost:
#Mail.mycroftserver.homelinux.org
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin drsmall@mycroftserver.homelinux.org
DocumentRoot /opt/lampp/cgi-bin/sqwebmail
ServerName mail.mycroftserver.homelinux.org
</VirtualHost>


Thank-you for you help. It gave me ideas, and then I fooled with it until I got it complete :)

Dr Small