<posted & mailed> Simon Andrews wrote: >> I'm running a program which writes PNG files in /var/www/cgi-bin/ >> and then writes an html file (also in cgi-bin) > > Well that's the problem. The cgi-bin directory is for executable files, > not for static content. Frankly I'm amazed your html files work as the > default apache configuration certainly doesn't permit this. It will try > to execute everything under /cgi-bin/. > > Save your files somewhere under your normal document root and everything > will work. Apart from anything else you are opening yourself to nasty > security holes by making cgi-bin writable by whichever user your > webserver is running as. Thanks very much. I'll follow your advice, which sounds very sensible to me. I was actually using a program, tcp_services.rcgi , which I took from the net; I'll modify it in accordance with your suggestions. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
