Apache help wanted

[Tim Wunder]

On 10/31/2002 11:49 AM, someone most assuredly Federico Voges wrote:
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> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:37:02 -0500, Tim Wunder wrote:
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>> Hi, In migrating from Apache 1 that was included with Caldera eW3.x
>> to Apache 2 provided by Red Hat 8 (version 2.0.40), I've gotten
>> pretty much everything to work OK. Except for the following:
>> 
>> - I can't seem to get Apache to to load one of the files listed by
>> the DirectoryIndex line for a directory other than the directory
>> root (and users' public_html directories). I'm apparently missing
>> something obvious, but it's eluding me... For example, I've got a
>> web-based calendar on my webserver (Webcal), and have an aliased
>> directory /calendar that calls up the /cgi-bin/webcal directory and
>> I have the following entries in my httpd.conf file:
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>> DirectoryIndex index.html webcal.cgi index.html.var index.cgi
>> main.htm
>> 
>> But when I try to access <URL>/calendar, I get an access denied
>> error. If I add webcal.cgi at the end, it loads. Permissions on the
>> calendar directory are 755 I've asked on IRC (#apache) and the
>> guy/gal there couldn't figer out why it wouldn't work. Anybody
>> wanna make a suggestion? I'm stumped :-(
>> 
>> httpd.conf file available upon request...
>> 
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> Are you sure that you're modifying the correct DirectoryIndex?? Check
>  all the <Directory*> sections and look for possible overrides.
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Yes. I had originally listed the DirectoryIndex without reference to a particular <Directory *>, but subsequently added "DirectoryIndex webcal.cgi" inside the <Directory "/home/httpd//cgi-bin/webcal">...<Directory> section. Still no go.

> Remember that options apply for the specified directory and all
> below, and maybe your cgi-bin somewhere else and not included in your
> modified config.
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cgi-bin works. When I specify the webcal.cgi file with the URL, the calendar works as expected.

> Besides that, are you sure that DirectoryIndex applies to cgi 
> directories??
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This I'm not sure about. I *am* sure that the settings for DirectoryIndex and the cgi-bin directories are what was working with Apache 1.3x and won't work with Apache 2.0.x. 

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Thanks, 
Tim