Apache config question

Philip Hallstrom freebsd at philip.pjkh.com
Wed Mar 29 16:21:35 UTC 2006


> Greetings,
> I have a Freebsd 6.0-Release system that I just
> installed.  I have installed Apache 1.3.33 from the
> ports system.
>
> I can see the index.html file when I point my browser
> to the server.  What I can't do is :
>
> browse to : http://server/cgi-bin/cscripts/myscript.cgi
>
> I get a 404 Not found.
> The requested URL /cgi-bin/myscript.cgi was not found
> on this server.
>
> The file myscript.cgi is located in the /usr/local/www/cgi-bin
> directory.  I verified this.
>
> I have added:
> <Directory "/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/cscripts">
> deny from all
> Options ExecCGI
> AllowOverride AuthConfig
> Order deny,allow
> </Directory>
>
> to the http.conf file.
> I did /usr/local/sbin/apachectl stop
> /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start.
>
> of course /usr/local/sbin/apachectl configtest says the config file is OK.
>
> What am I missing here ?

deny from all.

Unless I'm reading it wrong, you're denying access to that directory for 
everyone.  There's no "allow from ..." statement.

-philip


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