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How to use Perl CGI scripts in lamp appliance ?
Hi,
first of all, hi to the community. I'm new to Turnkey linux and after 1 installation, I'm becoming a fan.... Thanks for great work.
I'd like to modify LAMP appliance (I really like TKLPatch approach), but first I need to get some software written as Perl CGI scripts working.
At the moment I have an rrd.cgi script in /var/www/cgi-bin and when I try to access if from remote location, I get the script as text - it doesn't get executed.
Since appliance is supposed to support Apache&Perl out of the box, I'm surely missing something simple ?
Thanks in advance,
regards,
Bulek.
Replies (4)
You may need to configure Apache...
Reply 1same here
Reply 2same here. LAMP TKL. been trying to get a cgi to run. doesnt run by default.
editing httpd.conf as follows doesnt work at all.
Any new news on this?
Reply 3I have the same problem - I need to execute a script from cgi-bin within the /var/www folder
Can't quite figure out what to point where - I did check the referenced article but this mostly refers to windows setup
Any thoughts much appreciated
Answered in another post
Reply 4I just came across this thread after answering the same issue in a nother. You can see my post here.
CGI should work out of the box (in cgi-bin). I filed a bug report. Thanks for reporting this!
Anyhow, for a Perl CGI script to execute in cgi-bin Apache has to be configured with the +ExecCGI option for the cgi-bin directory and a few other things. See this article for details.