Configuring CGI on apache2

[Kevin O'Gorman]

SOLVED: it looks like NOT running CGI had become the default.  I just had to
configure the Gentoo USE flags and recompile to enable it.
This is another price of running a compile-from-source distribution, I
guess.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've got an odd problem on apache2, running on Gentoo.  A recent re-emerge
> has hosed my existing setup.  Because it's a re-emerge, it's possible I
> screwed it up myself during the reconciliation of configuration files.  I've
> been R-ing a lot of FMs and getting a re-education, and I've solved the
> problem that kept the daemon from starting at all, but it's still serving
> the source code of my CGI scripts rather than executing them.  The configs
> and file/directory permissions all look okay to me now, so I'm into serious
> debug mode.
>
> The folks on the gentoo list seem to mostly paraphrase man page snippets at
> me, which did help me get the server to start so I shouldn't complain, but
> it's not getting my CGI up and running.  I know I can debug this, but I also
> know there are several roads to follow and if I guess wrong this could take
> quite a long time, so I wonder if there's anybody here who *really* knows
> apache 2 configuration, and whether that changed at all around July 13.
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>
>


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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