[mapserver-users] access problems from cgi-bin on Mac OS X 10.4.11 / MAMP

[Dan Little]

I'm on 10.5 and never played with 10.4, but I'll see if I can help as it's all just UNIX, right? :-)

I'm also assuming that your directory definition was not copied, pasted and emailed correctly so the superfluous "\" are not really in that file.

Have you checked the permissions on the directory itself?  It may not be possible for the apache user to cd into the directory where the cgi-bin directory resides.


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>From: rmaurer <jevoudrais0418 at gmail.com>
>To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 11:28:03 AM
>Subject: [mapserver-users] access problems from cgi-bin on Mac OS X 10.4.11 / MAMP
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>So I'm a first time MapServer user and have been trying to navigate the installation process. I think I almost have it, but I am having some last problems. When I access my executable mapserv file from the command line, I get this: 
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>This script can only be used to decode form results and should be initiated as a CGI process via a httpd server. 
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>>All sounds good, right? Well, I am using MAMP to host an Apache2.0 server. The httpd.conf file has the following in it:
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>Alias /cgi-bin/ "[rootfile]/cgi-bin/" 
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>Directory "[rootfile]/cgi-bin/\>
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>AllowOverride None
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>Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Indexes
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>Order allow,deny
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>Allow from all
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>/Directory\> 
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>AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .py 
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>>I know that first line should probably be ScriptAlias, but I kept getting a "Permission Denied" message and read in a forum that this was a solution somebody had come up with, and indeed it worked for me as well. 
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>>Anyways, the problem is that in this cgi-bin I have my mapserv  executable (though one of the things I'm thinking is that maybe I need to add something else to AddHandler to make it think that this file is executable?). But when I got to //localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv it tries to download the file as "Untyped Binary Data" and it doesn't execute anthing.  
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>>In case its of any help the ls -l for my cgi-bin gives the following information:
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 Rebecca  Rebecca   51244 Jul  9 07:52 mapserv 
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>>Do I not have this installed correctly? Or is my server just not realizing that this is executable. I would be thrilled if I could just get to the point where //localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv just brought up a "No query information to decode" message, since I think I can handle it from there. 
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>>Thank you very much,
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>Rebecca 
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