Perl script 404 error

[sciulli]

Is there a setting I need to modify on my VPS to get a .pl script within cgi-bin working?

The file was uploaded in ASCII and chmod to 755 but still receiving 404 errors.

I'm wondering if I might have disabled cgi-bin access elsewhere although I activated it in the client's package.

[rainboy]

You didnt turn cgi-bin access off otherwise you wouldnt get a 404 error, but just the directory listing of your script. (it wouldnt execute) as far as i know. So there must be something wrong in your script. Check your apache error log for more information.

Kind regards,
Patrick

[sciulli]

The script is functioning on the client's current site with another host, but doesn't function when moved to their site hosted with me. I've verified that all permissions are identical, etc. I've just moved another working perl script over and am getting the same results (404 error). I think the problem has to lie within my VPS settings or some other configuration option.

[jason]

Are you sure it is a 404? That would imply that the server can't find the file. If it finds the file, but something else is wrong, you should be getting a Script Error (500).

Try moving the script out of cgi-bin to see what happens. Apache may be configured to ignore cgi-bin directories or soemthing like that. Are tehre any other scripts in cgi-bin that do work?

--Jason

[sciulli]

Thank You!!! I moved it out of cgi-bin and it immediately worked.

[jason]

I'm not an Apache expert by any means, but I'd venture a guess that you need to set up a ScriptAlias directive for the site's <VirtualHost> in Apache's httpd.conf. <Said like he knows what he's talking about >