RE: [cobalt-users] CGI above the /web directory...

["Jim Carey" <ozbcoz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan wrote:
>
> I'm trying to understand what the point of doing this is? Is it for
> security?
> With the scriptalias can't anyone still browse to
> www.domain.com/cgi-bin/file.ext  and just get pointed to the
> /home/sites/site#/cgi-bin/ instead of /home/sites/site#/web/cgi-bin/
>
> I could see doing this with a cgi-bin someplace on the server and a script
> alias tag in all sites pointing to that for a global cgi-bin or a shared
> cgi-bin for sites created outside of the GUI.


How do you get around cgi-wrap permissions problems if you have a shareg
cgi-bin ?  I understand that if you try to execute a cgi owned by someone
else then cgiwrap gets a little miffed ? Would be nice to be able to do
this.

cheers

Jim Carey
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