Getting cgi-bin working in apache.

[Peter Boy]

Am Montag, den 22.08.2005, 17:05 -0400 schrieb Robert Cahn:
> I'm trying to process an HTML form.  I've got apache up and running
> and I've uncommented the line "AddHandler cgi-script .cgi" in
> httpd.conf.  When I load the form page (/var/www/html/entry.htm) into
> the browser and hit the submit program I expected calculate.cgi to
> start.  It's in /var/www/cgi-bin.  Instead what I get is a pop up
> saying "You have chosen to open calculate.cgi which is a: CGI script
> from /var/www/cgi-bin.  What should Firefox do with this file? Open
> with Text Editor or save to disk?"

This message is typical if apache is missing exec permission.  Did you
have option ExecCGI enabled (see documentaion at www.apache.org for
details)?

Peter