[wellylug] Scripts no longer executing

[John Durham]

Daniel Pittman wrote:
> John Durham <john.modec at xtra.co.nz> writes:
>
>   
>> I thought this problem was in the past, but after sorting out the
>> others it has returned once more. All the cgi and pl scripts on my
>> server are being treated as simple text files by the
>> browser. Permissions are set to 755 in each case, but when I attempt
>> to test one by loading it into Firefox browser, the text of the script
>> appears.
>>
>> There are a lot of useful scripts on this system, so you can imagine
>> the reaction here. Looking for the reason and some way to fix it! The
>> server is Ubuntu Linux. Perl modules are installed (as far as I know).
>>     
>
> Is the Apache CGI or CGID module enabled?
>
> Check with 'ls /etc/apache2/mods-enabled'
>
> If not try the following:
>
>   sudo a2enmod cgi
>   sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
>
> Regards,
>         Daniel
>   
It's alright. The scripts began to run yesterday. Thanks everyone!
-- 
John Durham
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