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Article:		Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X: Part 2
Subject:		Problem enabling all .cgi or .pl files
Date:		2002-01-12 08:55:00
From:		morbus
Response to: Problem enabling all .cgi or .pl files
When you try to run one of a scripts, what do you see in your error log after getting the message?

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• Here's what the error_log says:
  2002-01-14 15:03:50  johnkoetsier [View]
  
  
  Message:
  
  [Mon Jan 14 15:01:05 2002] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /Library/WebServer/Documents/helloWorld.cgi
  
  Which basically tells us what we already knew ... I think.
• OK, fixed it ...
  2002-01-14 15:13:15  johnkoetsier [View]
  
  
  I added Exec/CGI to the options for:
  
  <Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents">
  
  I guess it's a bit confusing, since there are a couple of things in httpd.conf that could be seen as overlapping, since I had already allowed CGIs anywhere by uncommenting this:
  # AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
  (or so I thought).
  
  In any case, I am now up and happily (if insecurely) running. This is only a dev box for playing with, so I'm not too worried.
  
  Thanks again for the article!