How should we setup to execute CGI or Perl or PHP script through httpd?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • 5.x

Issue

  • How should we setup to execute a CGI or Perl or PHP script through httpd?

Resolution

CGI

  1. Deploy the CGI script to /var/www/cgi-bin/ directory (or the ScriptAlias directory specified in httpd.conf).

  2. Change permissions to execute the script.

  3. Access http://your_domain/cgi-bin/your_cgi_script.

Perl
  1. Install a mod_perl package.
  2. Edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/perl.conf (drop hash signes to enable handler.)
    Alias /perl /var/www/perl
<Directory /var/www/perl>
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
    PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
    Options +ExecCGI
</Directory>
  3. Deploy the Perl script to /var/www/perl/ directory.
  4. Change permissions to read the script.
  5. Access http://your_domain/perl/your_perl_script.
##### PHP

  1. Install a php package.

  2. Deploy the PHP script to /var/www/html/ directory with a .php extension.

  3. Change permissions to read the script.

  4. Access http://your_domain/your_php_script.

Root Cause

  • To execute scripts through httpd, Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides four modules: mod_cgi (httpd package), mod_perl, mod_php (php package) and mod_python.

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