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moxys
February 19, 2008, 10:44am Report to Moderator Report to Moderator
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After install I can work on my forum. All is ok.
The 2nd time I try to connect with the web navigator
http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/forum/

Error:

125
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/forum/ on this server.

Strange. After a little trouble I decide to use :

http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl

and its work again.

How to be able to use http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/forum/ without trouble ?

Thanking you in advance for your help.
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You will have to use mod_rewrite: http://www.blahdocs.com/How_to_use_Mod_Rewrite

or

upload an index page to the forum folder that redirects, here's an example, copy and paste into a file called index.html. Edit it with your site details and upload.

Code
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl /">
<title>Your Title</title>
</head>
<body>
</body> 
</html>



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Many thanks for your reply.

Index page with redirection is a great idea.
I have made this index.html page in my cgi-bin directory but this can not work (I suppose only .pl or .gci can work here).

I have made a directory named forum in the /www side with this index file and... same result with this navigator reply:  http://www.myrealsitename.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl%20/
Note the %20 I am not waiting for.  

Using mod_rewrite can be the solution.

When you search easy way you open the hard way (myself).



  
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I have made this index.html page in my cgi-bin directory but this can not work (I suppose only .pl or .gci can work here).


This must be your server setup as I have index.html in the cgi-bin folder on a couple of my test sites.

Code
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
print redirect('http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl');


Just create a index.pl file with that code inside of it, upload it to the same directory that Blah.pl is in, and chmod it to 755 and anytime someone goes to index.pl they will be redirected to Blah.pl



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