Enable Perl / CGI on NV+ shared HTML directory

Managed to figure it out, so here' show to Enable Perl / CGI on NV+ shared HTML directory for anyone else that is trying to figure it out:

httpd.conf includes a number of additional .conf files when it runs on reboot. We therfore need to add a CGI.conf
file to this list that will contain definitions for any new cgi-bin locations on shares.

1. edit httpd.conf to ensure the additional .conf files are loaded last.


SSH login using PuTTY or similar to root/admin.

cd /etc/frontview/apache/
vi httpd.conf

change the sequence of the last two lines
from :

	  Include /etc/frontview/apache/addons/*.conf
	  Include /etc/frontview/apache/Shares.conf

to:

	  Include /etc/frontview/apache/Shares.conf
	  Include /etc/frontview/apache/addons/*.conf

save the file.


2. Create a new .conf file for the cgi-bin's

cd /etc/frontview/apache/addons/

vi CGI.conf

Alias "/intranet/cgi-bin" "/c/intranet/cgi-bin"
<Location "/intranet/cgi-bin">
  Options ExecCGI
  Allow from all
</Location>

Save the file.

3. Reboot the Readynas to pick up the changes.

4. Create a test .pl file

SSH login using PuTTY or similar to root/admin.

cd intranet/cgi-bin
vi test.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<H1>Hello 2 my World</H1>\n";

Save the file.


5. Go to a browser and run the file:

http://serverip/intranet/cgi-bin/test.pl

If it does not work, check the permissions on the file ( CHMOD if necessary ) and also that you created
the .pl file using vi. Files created by notepad or wordpad dont work properly because the EOL character
used in Windows is incorrect.