I have an Apache 2.0 server that I'm trying to set up to serve CGI files. I have a sciptalias set up that points all URL's with the path /cgi-bin/ to the /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/ directory ...

OK, here's the setup:Mandrake 8.2document root /var/www/html/cgi directory /var/www/cgi-binroot owns the cgi directory, with 755 permissionsapache owns the html directory, with 755 permissionsthe ...

The CGI (Common Gateway Interface) defines a way for a web server to interact with external content-generating programs, which are often referred to as CGI programs or CGI scripts. It is the ...

According to the Apache team, less-privileged Apache child processes (such as CGI scripts) can execute malicious code with the privileges of the parent process.