perl cgi configuration setting in my homw PC

**Lesliesathish** · September 13th, 2010

Dear friends,

I planned to lear perl CGI, But I unable to configure it in my home PC.
I am using ubuntu 10.4 and apache2 web server.
When I was searching about it , I go this URL http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-422412.html.
I simply followed that points , which is there in that site.
But its not worked for me.

I have done this below things,

=> Installed libapache2-mod-perl2
=> Created the directory called cgi-bin under /var/www directory
=> Created the symbolic link like this,
ln -s /usr/lib/cgi-bin /var/ww/cgi-bin
=> modified the file called /etc/apache2/site-available/default and added this below lines,

<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl
</Directory>

=> Restarted the server
=> created the testing script under /var/ww/cgi-bin/
tried to open the page using firefox. Whe i was given this http://localhost/cgi-bin/ address, its simply says,

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this server.

=> Then I have given the 777 permission for /var/ww/cgi-bin/ and /usr/lib/cgi/ ( Recursive permission)
CGi is not working.

Can you plzz help me to make it work..

Thanks frds..

**spjackson** · September 13th, 2010

Do you really want http://localhost/cgi-bin/ to be browseable? That's unusual.

Don't you simply want to run scripts e.g. http://localhost/cgi-bin/myscript.pl ? Is this working?

Also, there seems to be some confusion between /var/ww/ and /var/www/ in what you have posted. Are these just typos in your posting or did you make these mistakes when setting it up?

**Lesliesathish** · September 14th, 2010

Hi friend,

=> http://localhost/cgi-bin/myscript.pl Its not working.
=> Its /var/www/. That is just typos in my post.
=> I want to run the script as a normal user. I don't want run the script as a root user.
I already configure the PHP. For that I have created the public_html in my home directory and just made a softlink from /var/www/. Now I can write the PHP script from my home itself.
Likewise I want to do frd. Can U plzzz help me.

Thank U.