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winsbury
Nov 15, 2010Aspirant
Enable Perl / CGI on NV+ shared HTML directory
I have a share ( intranet ) set up as html and the website works great for html but will not execute .pl or cgi files. http://IPaddress/intranet/cgi-bin/helloworld.html ...
winsbury
Nov 16, 2010Aspirant
Thanks for the comments Stefan,
Changing the sequence of the last two lines in httpd.conf was needed on my system as the settings in Shares.conf were overriding those in CGI.conf possibly because /intranet is higher up the tree than /intranet/cgi-bin. Although I could have added the settings in Shares.conf to get around this issue I didnt go that route since this file is generated by Frontview so the changes might have been overwritten should any additional shares be edited/created. In any case, it seems counter-intuitive to me to load the definitions for the add-ons prior to the Shares so I figured this was a sensible change regardless.
Yes indeed you can reload without a full re-boot, however I prefer a full reboot as a final check to ensure the system will definitely come up again, better to find out now rather than later ! Its also worth noting also that stopping and starting the html service within Frontview will not force a reloading of the httpd.conf file.
Changing the sequence of the last two lines in httpd.conf was needed on my system as the settings in Shares.conf were overriding those in CGI.conf possibly because /intranet is higher up the tree than /intranet/cgi-bin. Although I could have added the settings in Shares.conf to get around this issue I didnt go that route since this file is generated by Frontview so the changes might have been overwritten should any additional shares be edited/created. In any case, it seems counter-intuitive to me to load the definitions for the add-ons prior to the Shares so I figured this was a sensible change regardless.
Yes indeed you can reload without a full re-boot, however I prefer a full reboot as a final check to ensure the system will definitely come up again, better to find out now rather than later ! Its also worth noting also that stopping and starting the html service within Frontview will not force a reloading of the httpd.conf file.
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