Apache-cgi

To enable a cgi directory for each user

In order to give each user their own cgi-bin directory, edit the:

Apache1 (Slackware pre-12.0): /etc/httpd/httpd.conf file

Apache2 (Slackware 12.0+): /etc/httpd/extra/httpd-users.conf file

...and add:

<Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin/>

Options ExecCGI

SetHandler cgi-script

</Directory>

Then, presuming that UserDir is set to public_html, a cgi program example.cgi could be loaded from that directory as:

http://example.com/~rbowen/cgi-bin/example.cgi

In the Virtual Host section of your apache config file (/etc/apache/httpd.conf) add the ScriptAlias line below.

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName www.MyDomain.org

DocumentRoot /home/MyDomain/public_html

ErrorLog /var/log/MyDomain/error.log

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/MyDomain/public_html/cgi-bin/"

</VirtualHost>