Turnkey LAMP and CGI

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Johan Klinge - Mon, 2010/02/08 - 10:40

Hi,

I'm a newbie to Turnkey and have just set up LAMP as a virtual development environment for a website I support. Everything works great, except that the website uses cgi programs and I want to configure LAMP to run them. The cgi scripts are in directory /var/www/SITENAME/privat.  

Reading some other posts on the forum I changed the configuration for the default apache site to:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
 DocumentRoot /var/www/
 <Directory "/var/www/SITENAME/privat/">
  Options +ExecCGI
  AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
 </Directory>
LogLevel error
</VirtualHost>

But when running cgi script from the browser I get a 500 Internal Server Error and the apache logs says:

[error] [client IP] (2)No such file or directory: exec of '/var/www/SITENAME/privat/index.cgi' failed, referer: http://IP/SITENAME/
[Mon Feb 08 10:20:18 2010]
[error] [client IP] Premature end of script headers: index.cgi, referer: http://IP/SITENAME/

Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong would be appreciated.

Regards, /Johan

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