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rsa
12-11-1999, 09:11 PM
Hi,
I'm in the process of setting up my site and UBB. My url is www.cobranet.com (http://www.cobranet.com) which points to /big/dom/xcobranet/www.
My cgi-bin (/big/dom/xcobranet/cgi-bin) contains my UBB cgi's. I'm now supposed to log onto the BB at "ultimate.cgi". What is the url that that would point to that? Maybe I should have set up a cgi directory under the root web directory (/big/dom/xcobranet/www)? Thanks for any help.
-Rich

Justin
12-11-1999, 09:30 PM
Your cgi-bin directory is a ScriptAlias - this means that while it is not in your document root, it works as though it were. This is more secure, because only scripts can be called from the cgi-bin - everything in the cgi-bin is considered to be executable.

So, /big/dom/xcobranet/cgi-bin/ is accessible from the web at http://www.cobranet.com/cgi-bin/

Hope this helps.

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Justin Nelson
FutureQuest Support

rsa
12-11-1999, 11:01 PM
Ahhh, thanks Justin. I found the problem, I wasn't careful with my case sensitive typing. All is well. I'm gettin' there.
Thanks again,
-Rich