By khinelay
I am using ec2(Ubuntu) for perl program.
- When I call my IP, I want to show the IP/foldername/index.html How to do that- which one is suitable for me? redirect or virtual host. because I’m using Perl and I’m afraid that my settings will conflict with another and next question is
- I want to run my perl script from IP/foldername/cgi-bin/myperl.pl (Now I can only run from /usr/lib/cgi-bin How to configure it?
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For your first question, all you need to do is change DocumentRoot /var/www/html to DocumentRoot /path/to/some/folder in your existing VirtualHost
For your second question, you need to a few things to get that set up. First, run:
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2
sudo a2enmod cgi
sudo a2enmod perl
Then you must edit /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/serve-cgi-bin.conf Change the highlighted paths to the folder hosting the Perl scripts:
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
<IfModule mod_cgi.c>
Define ENABLE_USR_LIB_CGI_BIN
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_cgid.c>
Define ENABLE_USR_LIB_CGI_BIN
</IfModule>
<IfDefine ENABLE_USR_LIB_CGI_BIN>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Require all granted
</Directory>
</IfDefine>
</IfModule>
Finally, you must restart Apache:
sudo service apache2 restart
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