How Can I place a CGI-BIN directory below the WEB directory?

This way it will be protected.

But I don't think you'll be able to access it over the web. What you can do is this:

Create a cgi-bin dir in the web directory.
Make a .htaccess file
Put in the .htaccess file the following line:
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Options -Indexes



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Upload this .htaccess file to your cgi-bin. Now people won't be able to see the content of a dir, though they can access a file directly (if they know the write url).

If you are using Apache use the ScriptAlias directive in the config file. Your CGI-BIN directory can be anywhere then. For example your paths would look like /home/usersname/www/ for web files and /home/usersname/cgi-bin/ for cgi files. I think that is what you are looing for.

AP

What is percisely the benefit of your solution?!?

Is it safer?

yeah the folder doesnt show only the file can be accessed i just tryed it.

Though I don't get why it is safer,

Helps hide files that you dont want to be found.

wouldn't putting a blank index.html file in the /cgi-bin/ directory do the same thing ?

No because when you then access /cgi-bin/other_dir you will see the content, with the .htaccess solution you also don't see any content in that dir.

Originally posted by Starhost
No because when you then access /cgi-bin/other_dir you will see the content, with the .htaccess solution you also don't see any content in that dir. i see.. learnt something new again :D

I'm not sure that using ScriptAlias is any more secure or less secure than using the .htaccess file but it does seperate the cgi-bin directory from the document root. Also I find it easier to setup and manage since ScriptAlias does it in one line where as you would need to define the ExecCGI directive and setup the .htaccess file to do the same thing.

AP

Is there an easy way to create via ftp a cgi-pub folder for all the domains to use?

Not by ftp, no.

Thank you