apache: problem viewing PNGs

[Simon Andrews]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm running apache on my desktop,
> and viewing web-files on the desktop from my laptop.
> 
> I'm running a program which writes PNG files in /var/www/cgi-bin/
> and then writes an html file (also in cgi-bin)

Well that's the problem.  The cgi-bin directory is for executable files, 
not for static content.  Frankly I'm amazed your html files work as the 
default apache configuration certainly doesn't permit this.  It will try 
to execute everything under /cgi-bin/.

Save your files somewhere under your normal document root and everything 
will work.  Apart from anything else you are opening yourself to nasty 
security holes by making cgi-bin writable by whichever user your 
webserver is running as.

	TTFN

	Simon.