Setup your Web server with PHP engine plus MySQL database connection is pretty easy and straightforward. I have done this many times. Usually when I am installing server, I just choose apache, php and mysql and later CentOS installer (or YUM) will add requires additional packages like php-mysql, etc and you can add more PHP modules later.
But this time, I got asked by my colleague to provide apache that can execute Perl script. Actually this pretty easy if he got root access to put this perl script on /cgi-bin/ ScriptAlias which located on /var/www/cgi-bin/. But then he only has user access and I have implement mod_userdir on apache, no way he can put his script on /var/www/cgi-bin/
So what I need to do is configure each users has a cgi-bin folder on their public_html, then they can put perl script there and execute it.
This setup requires and make sure you install them (I am not to describe how to install each of them)
- Linux (I am still using CentOS - other distro should be fine)
- Apache (default webserver package in CentOS) - the httpd.conf will be tweaked
- perl (and its modules you need)
- mod_perl (dont you forget this)
Okay, let's start!!
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