Re: [cobalt-users] cgi-bin on an XTR (shopsite)

["Rod Poplarchick" <rod@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Rock" <carock@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:24 AM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] cgi-bin on an XTR


> It would actually be nice to see a "real" implementation of cgi-bin from
the
> Cobalt UI in which you would specify directory names for script alias tags
> in the httpd.conf file, and it would "automatically" configure the Apache
> server correctly with something similar....
>
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/user/www.domain.com/cgi-bin/
>     <Directory "/home/user/www.domain.com/cgi-bin">
>         AllowOverride None
>         Options ExecCGI
>         Order allow,deny
>         Allow from all
>     </Directory>
>     <Directory "/home/user/www.domain.com/cgi-bin/ShopSite">
>         AllowOverride None
>         Options ExecCGI
>         Order allow,deny
>         Allow from all
>     </Directory>
>     <Directory /home/user/www.domain.com/cgi-bin/ss>
>         AllowOverride AuthConfig
>         Options All
>         order allow,deny
>         allow from all
>     </Directory>
>
> This shows some configs from a shopping cart that needed these entries in
> the Apache config to work correctly. None of this is rocket science, and
> could easily be done through the Cobalt UI if Sun would put that
capability
> in the Virtual server config area of the UI. Otherwise, you are left with
> making changes to a system that may have adverse affects if it's done
> incorrectly.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
> Chuck Rock
>
I see the shopsite entry and that reminded me what just happened to me last
week on my Raq3 after I installed a security update. All the shopping carts
on my server stopped. I had to chown the Shopsite files back to the users of
the cart.

But on Security of shopsite data I put all data files for Shopsite outside
of the web directory.

Rod Poplarchick
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