cgi's running in the root folder.

AddHandler is already set to run .cgi files. The person who owns this web
site would like to execute a cgi script from the root directory. Is there
something else besides a ScriptAlias that I could use to allow cgi execution
in the root directory and still let me pull up regular html files too?

Don

> AddHandler is a directive somwhere in your httpd.conf file.. do a search
> for it and you'll probably find a few commented lines.. remove them and
> add the corect extensions for yourself ..
>
> ps. script alias in rootdir == bad.. none of your regular files will pull
> up ..
>
>
> --
> Marc Chung [mchung@asu.edu]
> "I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately"
>
>
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Don Harrop wrote:
>
> > Well, whatever I though must be wrong. I wanted to have cgi execute
access
> > in the root folder of a web site.. Not in the cgi-bin folder. I added
the
> > Script Alias var under the virtual host that I wanted this functionality
on
> > and after I restart apache none of the html documents will pull up in
that
> > hosts root directory... and it still wont run any cgi's. Is this not
> > possible or am I supposed to put this configuration somewhere else?
> >
> > Don