making perl/cgi work

[jeffburton]

Hi,

Php seems fine but .pl .cgi located anywhere or cgi-bin on a clients ftp, i .e hello world, loads the code raw on the browser, does not seem to exec, even with 755 mod.

Is there something needed to make the file in /usr/bin/perl work with apache2? also my perl is installed.



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[jeffburton]

ok, i just removed # from start of ' AddHandler cgi-script .cgi ' in apachie2's mime.conf and now cgi is working but .pl files try to dnload when accessed, even with exec 755 set, anyone any ideas how to now get .pl files to run?



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[jeffburton]

by going to mime.conf in apache2 i removed # in front of the line to deal with cgi-scripts also adding .pl beside the already stated .cgi and now cgi/perl works,

i wonder is this safe, i.e if a client has an account and uploads a cgi that lets them browse their space, could they go back out of their home dir or out side of their area and break security?



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