apache trying to execute cgi man pages 🔗 link

On 2016-05-18 3:35, Bruce Ferrell wrote: 

I'm getting some errors that are making me nuts when I access the man pages for the cgi programs

The apache log shows this:

And of course, when I add ExecCGI I get:

Premature end of script headers: ackinfo.cgi.1.html

The server is scientific linux 6

Suggestions?

On 05/18/2016 07:33 AM, user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid wrote:

I'd look through the Apache configs for a regex that matches the folder (or objects with ".cgi"), probably in a ScriptAliasMatch or LocationMatch directive (although there are a
number of other candidates).

 
On 2016-05-18 3:35, Bruce Ferrell wrote:

I'm getting some errors that are making me nuts when I access the man pages for the cgi programs

The apache log shows this:

Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /home/xymon/server/www/help/manpages/man1/ackinfo.cgi.1.html, referer: http://server.org/xymon/help/manpages/man1/

And of course, when I add ExecCGI I get:

Premature end of script headers: ackinfo.cgi.1.html

The server is scientific linux 6

Suggestions?

On 2016-05-19 2:51, Bruce Ferrell wrote: 

I didn't find the problem directive, BUT I did find that apache 2 interprets files like these as multi extension files (i.e. both cgi AND html are extensions, cgi being found first)

SO I added the following to the bottom of xymon-apache.conf:

<FilesMatch .html>
SetHandler text/html
</FilesMatch>

forcing the html man pages to html

On 5/19/16 6:53 AM, user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid wrote:

Glad you figured it out.

Given that the file name has "cgi.1.html", I'd consider the handling as a multi-extension to be a bug.

On 2016-05-19 2:51, Bruce Ferrell wrote:

I didn't find the problem directive, BUT I did find that apache 2 interprets files like these as multi extension files (i.e. both cgi AND html are extensions, cgi being found first)

SO I added the following to the bottom of xymon-apache.conf:

<FilesMatch \.html>
   SetHandler text/html
</FilesMatch>

forcing the html man pages to html


On 05/18/2016 07:33 AM,user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid>wrote:

I'd look through the Apache configs for a regex that matches the folder (or objects with ".cgi"), probably in a ScriptAliasMatch or LocationMatch directive (although there are a number of other candidates). On 2016-05-18 3:35, Bruce Ferrell wrote:

I'm getting some errors that are making me nuts when I access the man pages for the cgi programs The apache log shows this: Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /home/xymon/server/www/help/manpages/man1/ackinfo.cgi.1.html, referer: http://server.org/xymon/help/manpages/man1/ And of course, when I add ExecCGI I get: Premature end of script headers: ackinfo.cgi.1.html The server is scientific linux 6 Suggestions? 

On 2016-05-19 10:13, Bruce Ferrell wrote: 

Yeah, maybe, except it's how apache does multi-language page support i.e:

help.fr.html
help.en.html
help.cn.html

etc

On 5/19/16 6:53 AM, user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid wrote: 
Glad you figured it out. 
Given that the file name has "cgi.1.html", I'd consider the handling as a multi-extension to be a bug. 
On 2016-05-19 2:51, Bruce Ferrell wrote: 
I didn't find the problem directive, BUT I did find that apache 2 interprets files like these as multi extension files (i.e. both cgi AND html are extensions, cgi being found first)

SO I added the following to the bottom of xymon-apache.conf:

<FilesMatch .html>
SetHandler text/html
</FilesMatch>

forcing the html man pages to html

On 05/18/2016 07:33 AM, user-d37f300c2202@xymon.invalid:
I'd look through the Apache configs for a regex that matches the folder (or objects with ".cgi"), probably in a ScriptAliasMatch or LocationMatch directive (although there are a number of other candidates). On 2016-05-18 3:35, Bruce Ferrell wrote: I'm getting some errors that are making me nuts when I access the man pages for the cgi programs The apache log shows this: Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /home/xymon/server/www/help/manpages/man1/ackinfo.cgi.1.html, referer: http://server.org/xymon/help/manpages/man1/ [1] And of course, when I add ExecCGI I get: Premature end of script headers: ackinfo.cgi.1.html The server is scientific linux 6 Suggestions? [2]