How to execute CGIs from anywhere

[Conor McCarthy]

Is there a way to allow CGIs to be executed from anywhere, not just the cgi-bin, using Plesk?

Cheers
Conor

 

[Blackbit@]

What's the reason for opening this big gate, if i may ask?

 

[Conor McCarthy]

I've got an existing set of scripts which I want to move to the new server which doesn't separate cgis and html, so it would be difficult to edit all the paths in the scripts.

 

[Blackbit@]

I would try two things.

In /etc/apache2/default-server.conf is a part like this, defining CGI:

# ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
# ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
# documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and
# run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the client.
# The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives as to
# Alias.
#
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/srv/www/cgi-bin/"

# "/srv/www/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
# CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
#
<Directory "/srv/www/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -Includes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

And in you Domains' httpd.include you can find "Options -Includes -ExecCGI" disallowing ExecCGI for your DocumentRoot. You could change that to +ExecCGI, then CGI is allowed for the whole DocumentRoot.

Hope this helps.

 

[Conor McCarthy]

Thanks for the reply Blackbit. Apache isn't my forte.
I can't find any file called default-server.conf (using locate). And there is no /etc/apache2/ directory. Actually, I can find shag all related to apache when I run a locate apache.

Have you any other ideas?

 

[CruzMark]

See Knowledge base Article ID: 193

Originally posted by Conor McCarthy
Is there a way to allow CGIs to be executed from anywhere, not just the cgi-bin, using Plesk?

Cheers
Conor

 

[Conor McCarthy]

Thanks.

By default Plesk runs CGI scripts in /cgi-bin/ folder only. To allow CGI scripts be processed from any folder, you should and uncomment the cgi-script AddHandler directive in the main apache configuration file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: