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[6dhosting.com]

Okay, so I have Plesk 7.0.2 with Fedora C1. When ever I try to add a CGI script to a site, nothing happens. Most of the time I get a 404 or 500 error. I simply don't know how to fix it. I did notice that Plesk puts the cgi-bin in the root folder of each site, but is it part of the server that needs to be configured or what?

[Raptors]

Please make sure you upload your cgi scripts in ascii mode

[bteeter]

Take a look at this - it might help:

http://www.assortedinternet.com/supp...ndetails&_i=12

its a HOW TO that I wrote a while back on how to debug CGI script problems.

HTH,

Brian

[NexDog]

Login as root and do this:

cp -Rfp /usr/sbin/psa-suexec /usr/sbin/suexec

Strange but true. Someone that doesn't know how to install Plesk with their eyes close won't know about that step.

[6dhosting.com]

What did that do exactly???

[NexDog]

It copied over psa-suexec to suexec as Plesk uses its own suexec binary for cgi.

[6dhosting.com]

ahh, I see. Still won't let me execute www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi tho...

[NexDog]

Do this:

cat -A nph-proxy.cgi

And see if it has dos line endings (M^) rather than unix ($).

Also check that the domain has CGI support turned on.
Check the cgi-bin is 755.
Check the script is 755.