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  • Bug#263038: apache2-mpm-prefork: cgi-bin doesn't seem to work

    From J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)@1:229/2 to Diwaker Gupta on Sat Aug 21 22:00:16 2004
    From: [email protected]

    On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 12:38:03 -0700, Diwaker Gupta wrote:
    None of my perl executables in /usr/lib/cgi-bin seem to work anymore.
    They were working fine until the last upgrade.

    Please check if
    - /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/cgi.load is a symlink to
    /etc/apache2/mods-available/cgi.load
    - /etc/apache2/mods-available/cgi.load contains
    LoadModule cgi_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_cgi.so

    Regards,
    Ray
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  • From J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)@1:229/2 to Diwaker Gupta on Sat Aug 21 22:10:13 2004
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    On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 12:38:03 -0700, Diwaker Gupta wrote:
    On pointing my browser to /awstats/first.pl, the browser tries to download the perl file, instead of showing the output as HTML.

    Isn't this a security issue? CGI scripts can contain sensitive data (e.g. authentication details for databases).

    IMO if the "cgi-script" handler is specified for a particular extension and
    the CGI module isn't available, apache2 should produce an internal error,
    not display the script.

    Ray
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