I am trying to set up a web server on Redhat 8.0 where each user can have a directory of web pages in their home directory. I have it set up so that apache can get pages from the public_html directory and that works.

What I am working on now is letting each user have a cgi-bin directory in their home directory as well. I have tried a number of things but am kind of stumped.

First of all, I am not sure whether the cgi-bin directory should be directly in the home directory or in the public_html subdirectory.

What is the best way to do that? What settings in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf do I have to use to enable this?

This should be easy, but I can't figure it out... help?

Take a look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/how...lic_html.html. It worked for me. I had to change my version to the following...

#
# Got this from http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/public_html.html
<Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin/>
Options ExecCGI
SetHandler cgi-script
</Directory>

Hope this helps.

/Frank

Thanks,
I had seen that web page when I posted the original, but still couldn't get it to work. I had that line, but it still wasn't doing what I wanted it to. What I ended up having to do is put a "ScriptAlias" line for each user that was to have a script directory. I couldn't figure out any general way to do that, so I just put a line for all the users.