How to enable directory

External Since: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 1

I have Apache 2.x running on a home server. I want my perl scripts to run and
access files in a directory that is not under Apache directory tree.

Currenty I have Apache to run scripts at
C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs

Scripts can access file there but not anywhere else.

For example:

<html>
<p>Test</p>
<p>
<form action="testing.pl" method="post">
<input type="text" name="testing1" value="Hello world">
</form>
</html>

Above works fine but I'd like to keep my perl script at c:\pfiles on my computer.

I've set:
<Directory "C:/pfiles">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

in httpd.conf but below does not run:

<html>
<p>Test</p>
<p>
<form action="c:\\pfiles\\testing.pl" method="post">
<input type="text" name="testing1" value="Hello world">
</form>
</html>

External Since: Apr 06, 2006 Posts: 40

123 wrote:
> I have Apache 2.x running on a home server. I want my perl scripts to run and
> access files in a directory that is not under Apache directory tree.
>
> Currenty I have Apache to run scripts at
> C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs
>
> Scripts can access file there but not anywhere else.
>
> For example:
>
> <html>
> <p>Test</p>
> <p>
> <form action="testing.pl" method="post">
> <input type="text" name="testing1" value="Hello world">
> </form>
> </html>
>
> Above works fine but I'd like to keep my perl script at c:\pfiles on my computer.
>
> I've set:
> <Directory "C:/pfiles">
> AllowOverride None
> Options None
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> in httpd.conf but below does not run:
>
> <html>
> <p>Test</p>
> <p>
> <form action="c:\\pfiles\\testing.pl" method="post">
> <input type="text" name="testing1" value="Hello world">
> </form>
> </html>

add the following to your VirtualHost container in the httpd.conf file

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /path/to/directory/where/cgi/files/are/