[OpenLayers-Users] Ubuntu + Apache + proxy.cgi

[Josh Livni]

Not sure if you're somewhat new to linux or not, but just in case, here 
are some common gotchas I've come across:

In addition to copying the proxy.cgi to a folder where Apache will run 
cgi executables for you, also be sure your proxy.cgi is executable 
(permission-wise) by the user running the apache process (probably 
www-user).  You may wish to just to 'chmod a+x proxy.cgi) to ensure it's 
executable by everyone for testing.

If you do want to make a new folder that is specifically cgi-executable 
to put your proxy.cgi in, a simple example of how to do this for 
tilecache is available under the 'running under cgi' section of the 
readme for that program 
(http://svn.tilecache.org/trunk/tilecache/docs/README.txt), and you can 
follow the same concept for any cgi program you want to run.

Also, just in case, be sure you can run the program outside of apache by 
just doing ./proxy.cgi in a shell -- if there are errors, such as it 
can't find the python program, or you've edited in windows and the 
newlines are compatible, this will help isolate some problems.

Cheers,

 -Josh





Jesús García Carrero wrote:
> Hi there! First of all happy new year.
>
> I've been working with proxy.cgi provided with OpenLayers 
> (congratulations to the core team on this great software) under 
> Apache+Windows (only changing python path in the first line). It's all 
> right.
>
> Now I'm trying to do the same using Ubuntu. The problem I've found is 
> Apache configuration in Ubuntu is very different than Windows one (and 
> I'm sure it's different than other linux Apache packages). I think 
> it's due to Apache package for Ubuntu way of organizing things. Where 
> do I have to put proxy.cgi? I have a cgi-bin folder but it doesn't 
> work there...
>
> Many thanks in advance!
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