Re: Why do CGI programs run while not enabled?

you are right, directive in the top level are for all, directive into a
drirectory, replace the top directives for this directory.
Take some times at ibm info center and read the http doc (admin,
webmaster..) it will be very usefull .
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Skvarenina" <mskvarenina@xxxxxxx>
To: "'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 2:43 PM
Subject: [WEB400] Why do CGI programs run while not enabled?


> In reviewing my Apache configuration files towards the top I found:
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> Options -ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks -SymLinksIfOwnerMatch -Includes
> -IncludesNoExec -Indexes -MultiViews
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> Later in my configuration I found:
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> <Directory /QSYS.LIB/CGIBIN.LIB/>
>  Allow From all
>  <FilesMatch ^(.*)\.PGM$>
>  Options +ExecCGI
>  Allow From all
>  </FilesMatch>
> </Directory>
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> The documentation indicates that the -ExecCGI option is suppose to
indicate
> CGI is disabled so I'm not sure how/why having this entry in twice seems
to
> allow my CGI apps to run.  One thought I had is that by specifying the
> -ExecCGI at the top, defaults the server to no CGI, then the +ExecCGI
allows
> CGI to run only from programs in CGIBIN library?
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