Use symlink to point to a cgi script?

[doctormelodious]

Greetings,

I have used symlink as follows:

symlink("/home/www/myDomain/cgi-bin/editor/customPage.cgi",
 "/home/www/myDomain/customPage.cgi") or dienice ("failed");

My reason for wanting to do this is to provide a shorter URL for people.

The symlink was successfully created. Via FTP I double-checked the permissions, and looked at the contents -- the contents of the original file.

The problem is that I can't run the script from the symlink URL:

http://myDomain.org/customPage.cgi?foo=bar

I get an Internal Server Error. Is this just something you can't do, or is there a trick for running a CGI script from a symbolic link?

Thanks much!
Perry

[MattyMoose]

I think it's because your symlink points to a directory that's not /cgi-bin/.

Try adding your "/" directory to the allowed Execute thingies in Apache. (I can't remember what it's called).

You may want to look more in depth into how cgi-bin directories work, since I haven't worked much with cgi-bin. :)

HTH,
-MM