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     Re: [nocol-users] webnocol.cgi

OK, that works fine.  What seems to be happening is that rather 
than the script posting to /cgi-bin/webnocol.cgi it's trying to 
post back to /cgi-bin, thus the error, "attempt to invoke 
directory as script".

Josh Stone

On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 10:33:47AM +0100, John Stumbles wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Joshua Stone wrote:
> 
> > I am bringing up nocol on a freebsd 4.0 box and have a 
> > problem with webnocol.  When I click nocol view 
> > after authenticating, I get:
> > "You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this server."
> > 
> > The apache error_log shows:
> > [Mon Apr 10 19:46:49 2000] [error] [client 206.252.133.86] 
> > attempt to invoke directory as script: /usr/local/www/docs/myass/cgi-bin
> > 
> > Not sure if it's an apache issue or a nocol issue.  Some 
> 
> to diagnose which, try running a trivial cgi script e.g.
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> 
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\nHello, World";
> 
> If you get the same problem it's an Apache issue ...
> 
> --
> John Stumbles                                      j.d.stumbles@reading.ac.uk
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