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Tyler Montney
Asked: 2015-07-12 00:23:34 +0800 CST

Webserver is fetching rather than executing CGI files

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I am settings up Bugzilla for the first time, and I've been getting this error:

TEST-FAILED Webserver is fetching rather than executing CGI files.
Check the AddHandler statement in your httpd.conf file.

I've searched a lot of different threads, but nothing helped. The AddHandler statement seems correct. Here is my apache2.conf.

ScriptAlias /bugzilla/ /var/www/html/bugzilla/
<Directory /var/www/html/bugzilla>
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.cgi
AllowOverride Limit FileInfo Indexes Options
</Directory>

I followed this tutorial: https://bugzilla.readthedocs.org/en/5.0/installing/linux.html I am stuck on 3.2.9, where ./testserver.pl results in the error above.

ubuntu

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Something that was never mentioned in any tutorial, or any of my searches was enabling the CGI module.

    sudo a2enmod cgi
sudo service apache2 restart

    For reference, here is my apache2.conf:

    Alias /bugzilla/ /var/www/html/bugzilla/
<Directory /var/www/html/bugzilla>
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.cgi
AllowOverride Limit FileInfo Indexes Options
</Directory>

    Source: https://askubuntu.com/questions/54251/how-do-i-make-apache-run-a-cgi-instead-of-showing-the-text

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  2. On mobile so a bit brief, but rather than an Alias directive try ScriptAlias for CGI.

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