https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1030713 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-management/cgi-problem#comment-1179133 <p>here is some more information about the problem.</p> <p>I get the error when I visit the page,</p> <p>Quote:<br /> Forbidden</p> <p>You don't have permission to access /index.cgi on this server.<br /> Apache/2.0.54 (Gentoo/Linux) Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80</p> <p>and in the apache error log,</p> <p>Quote:<br /> Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/index.cgi</p> <p>I have set the permissions correctly (or atleast think I have)</p> <p>Quote:<br /> bash-2.05b$ ls -l<br /> drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 9 19:54 cgi-bin<br /> drwxrwxr-x 13 root wheel 4096 Sep 9 19:54 htdocs</p> Sat, 10 Sep 2005 07:05:04 +0000 mattx comment 1179133 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-management/cgi-problem#comment-1179130 <p>yes all the files have the correct permissions, they are using the same ones that are being used in the cgi-bin directory, where they work fine.</p> <p>yet im still getting </p> <p><div class="codeblock"><code>Forbidden<br /><br />You don&#039;t have permission to access /index.pl on this server.</code></div>'</p> Sat, 10 Sep 2005 06:03:29 +0000 mattx comment 1179130 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-management/cgi-problem#comment-1179123 <p>More than likely it is not an apache problem but a permission problem. Have you chmod'd the files correctly according to the documentation for the cgi script?</p> Sat, 10 Sep 2005 01:03:27 +0000 mairving comment 1179123 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net