I recently update my Slackware13.37 using slackpkg and now firefox show the content of my perl.cgi script instead of execute. I am using:
bash-4.2# httpd -v
Server version: Apache/2.4.2 (Unix) Server built: May 24 2012 14:55:44
bash-4.2# firefox -v
Mozilla Firefox 12.0
bash-4.2# perl -v
This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 0 (v5.16.0) built for i486-linux-thread-multi
the script works before update
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use DBI;
use PDF::API2::Simple;
use PDF::Table;
use Data::Types qw(:all);
my @param=();
###############################
### main ####
###############################
my $q = new CGI;
if(!defined $q->param('login')){
if(!defined $q->param('query')){main::login_relogin('Welcome');
}else{
my ($fname,$lname,$sec,$w,$h) = main::read_cookie();
if(defined $sec){
main::home($fname,$lname,$sec,$w,$h,$q->param('query'),$q->param('param1'),$q->param('param2'));
}else{main::login_relogin('Your session expired !!!');}
}
etc... etc...
pls help
I was having this same problem with Apache 2.4.2.
Problem solved: mod_cgi.so does not build by default on my system (openSUSE 12.1). When I built Apache 2.2, CGI was part of the core, not a dynamic module as in 2.4. So when running configure, adding --enable-cgi is needed. Also, uncomment "LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_cgi.so" in httpd.conf
Alternately, use mod_cgid.so, which did build on my system. Per http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_cgi.html
"When using a multi-threaded MPM under unix, the module mod_cgid should be used in place of this module. At the user level, the two modules are essentially identical"
So, uncomment "LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_cgid.so" in httpd.conf. Also uncomment "Scriptsock logs/cgisock" in httpd.conf (in the directive).