What about the permissions on the cgi-bin directory?  Maybe you have permission
to access the file, but not the directory in which it's located.

Wayne




"Born, Ken" <[log in to unmask]> on 09/22/2000 11:50:31 AM

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Subject:  [HP3000-L] Apache "Forbidden" Message in Browser with CGI's



Greetings,
I have created PASCAL CGI program (getenv) and a htm document (getenvh) that
calls it.  The PASCAL CGI will use the getenv function call to extract the
SERVER_NAME.  Everything works except when I use the browser (Internet
Explorer, Netscape), I receive the error message.

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /getenv.cgi on this server.


The UNIX security stuff is as follows:
shell/iX> cd
shell/iX> cd htdocs
shell/iX> ls -l
total 24
-rw-rw----   1 MGR.APACHE        APACHE         0 Sep 22 06:38 New
-rw-r--r--   1 MGR.APACHE        APACHE      2326 May 15 06:19 apache_pb.gif
-rwxr-xr-x   1 MGR.APACHE        APACHE      1440 Sep 22 07:23 getenvh
-rwxr-xr-x   1 MGR.APACHE        APACHE      1560 Jun 26 06:26 hi
-rw-r--r--   1 MGR.APACHE        APACHE      1622 May 15 06:19 index.html
drwxr-xr-x   6 MGR.APACHE        APACHE      3872 May 15 06:19 manual
shell/iX> cd
shell/iX> cd cgi-bin
shell/iX> ls -l
total 611
-rwxr-xr-x   1 MGR.APACHE        APACHE    210432 Sep 22 05:49 alweb.cgi
-rwxrwxrwx   1 MGR.APACHE        APACHE     37120 Sep 22 06:07 getenv.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x   1 MGR.APACHE        APACHE     26112 May 31 12:10 hi.cgi
-rw-r--r--   1 MGR.APACHE        APACHE       126 May 15 06:19 printenv
-rwxr-xr-x   1 MGR.APACHE        APACHE     37120 May 31 07:10 test
-rw-r--r--   1 MGR.APACHE        APACHE       757 May 15 06:19 test-cgi

I even changed getenv.cgi to allow for read, write, execute, for the
owner,group,and user and I still get this error message.

Is there something in httpd.conf that disallows the execution of cgi's?

Thanks....