I'm running Apache2 on ubuntu 16.04,just installed it all fresh, and trying to run a CGI script on my site! I'm aware apache needs to be configured to run it. I've put my cgi-bin directory in var/www with:
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/cgi-bin/
then ran this (although not sure why!):
sudo chown $USER:www-data /var/www/cgi-bin/
Then added these to my apache.conf file:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/var/www/cgi-bin/
< Directory /var/www/cgi-bin/ >
Options ExecCGI <br>
AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl
< /Directory >
Essentially when I open my site, some javascript
runs jqueries ajax
with the CGI script as an argument, and well it's just not running! :(
Sorry for awful formatting of post etc. it's my first, and if anyone needs any other info/attachments please let me know, this is for a big deadline and i'm so close but so far!