Allow public cgi-bin access

How? .htaccess?

[gsx]

I currently have a couple of CGI scripts that create relatively static pages from a database. They are performed dynamically because they are shop products, there are over 3000 products, so static files are not really feasible.

Google cannot spider the cgi-bin as my host has disabled that by default (nor can people visit from google's result - I can see google has attempted to spider as it lists the cgi files when I search on my domain name).

Is it possible to allow public access to the CGI files, with the referrer checking off? Can it be done in .htaccess?

I have seen:

<Directory "/web/cgi-bin">
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Would this be correct? Or is there a better way, where I can specify individual files rather than a directory?

[jdMorgan]

gsx,

The easiest and safest way to do this might be to simply put those scripts into a different
directory. The placment of CGI scripts into cgi-bin is more of a convention than a requirement...
unless your hosting company requires it. I'd suggest talking to your hosting company if running
scripts in other directories doesn't work.

Jim