cgi-bin 404

[Matt Smith]

Hi

I have setup a new site on my VPS (WHM / cPanel) with CGI Enabled.

I have created test.pl in /public_html/cgi-bin/

When I try accessing the page I get a 404 (Not found) error. The file is owned by the correct user and is chmod 755.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Matt Smith]

I think I can see what is happening, it is looking in /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin instead of the users cgi-bin, surely a new account should automatically be setup to look in the users cgi-bin??

[JPC-Awais]

Please open a support ticket and we will check it for you. It normally requires correct path for cgi-bin as ScriptAlias in virtualhost section of your domain.

[Matt Smith]

JPC-Awais

Thank you, I have setup a ScriptAlias for the virtualhost and everything now works fine. Was I wrong to assume that this should be done automatically though? It could be very confusing for a user that a cgi-bin gets created but is usless without the ScriptAlias being setup.

[JPC-Zishan]

Yes, it should be setup automatically. If its happening for all domains, then I can guess the virtual host template needs to be checked as probably its missing the ScriptAlias line. If it happened just for this domain then it can be a cPanel bug that somehow missed it. In this case cPanel error log can be checked if it logs any such error for that action.

[Matt Smith]

It is happening for all new domains, where can I find the vhost template?

[JPC-Zishan]

You should look for following lines in /var/cpanel/templates/apacheX/vhost.default

[% IF scriptalias == 1 -%]
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ [% vhost.documentroot %]/cgi-bin/
[% END -%]