[OpenLayers-Users] problems settings up proxy

[Eric Lemoine]

On Sunday, November 29, 2009, Bryan Hempen <brhempen at uos.de> wrote:
> hi there!
>
> i am trying to set up a proxy as described on
> http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#ProxyHost to
> avoid the security exception "Access to restricted URI denied" code:
> "1012".
>
> it started occuring yesterday without me making any changes on the code
> (at least i wasn't aware of).
>
> ever since then i did not get to fix it, so i hope you guys can help me.
>
> i put the proxy.cgi in my private script folder on the server located at
> /home/bhempen/public_html/cgi-bin (i didn't modify it) and added
>
> OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=";
>
> to the code of my index.html. the URL should be right relativ to the
> index.html. anyways, changing it to
>
> OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "/~bhempen/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=";
>
> does not help either. i get a 500 Internal Server Error and didn't find
> anything useful at google.
>
> take a look at the code yourself:
>
> http://igf-project.igf.uos.de/~bhempen/
>
> any ideas?

are you sure your cgi-bin directory is effectively declared as a CGI
directory in the Apache config?

cheers,

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