[TAG] Two-cent tip for Linux Gazette

[Ben Okopnik]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 03:49:51PM +0100, Martin J Hooper wrote:
> Silas S. Brown wrote:
> > But we can go one up on that - the following short script will
> > list the contents of the directory, with an optional "download
> > as zip" link that sets the filename appropriately.  If you're
> > using the small Mathopd webserver, you can edit
> > /etc/mathopd.conf and set AutoIndexCommand to the path of this
> > script:
> 
> Can you do this on Apache2?  I'm presuming that you can
> somehow...  Not really an expert on configuring web servers!

Of course. It's not really server dependent - any server that can
interpret CGI and has Bash installed should be able to handle it.
 
> Plus getting my server to run CGI scripts too.

You need to read up on the "Options" directive and the 'ExecCGI'
setting.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#options


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