Execute CGI file without extension - linux

Question

I am new to CGI or Apache.
I am trying to install an application called as mooshak.
The installation is finishing fine. But when I open the local site, it simply downloads the file instead of executing it.
When I open http://localhost/~mooshak/cgi-bin/execute, it simply downloads the file as shown:
#!/bin/sh
# the next line restarts using tclsh \
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/contrib/bin ; exec tclsh "$0" "$#"
#-*-Mode: TCL; iso-accents-mode: t;-*-
set errorCode NONE
cd ../..
lappend auto_path packages
source .config
execute::command_line
My /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf file looks like this :
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
<Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI -Includes -Indexes
SetHandler cgi-script
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</IfModule>
What should I do ?

Answer 1

Try like this
<Directory /home/*/public_html>
Options -Includes -Indexes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI -Includes -Indexes
SetHandler cgi-script
</Directory>
And give to script chmod +x

Answer 2

Try to use /urs/lib/cgi-bin for cgi-scripts. Every thing else will give you a haedache if you not know what to do.
The cgi-scripts need to be executable and readable for the user www-data
For Apache version >=2.2 you will need to add an entry in /etc/apache2/conf-available. My config looks like this ...
admin#suse:~$ cat /etc/apache2/conf-available/cgi-bin.conf
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
<IfModule mod_cgi.c>
Define ENABLE_USR_LIB_CGI_BIN
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_cgid.c>
Define ENABLE_USR_LIB_CGI_BIN
</IfModule>
<IfDefine ENABLE_USR_LIB_CGI_BIN>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride AuthConfig
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Suleiman's Heimat 2.0"
AuthBasicProvider file
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passwd
Require valid-user
</Directory>
</IfDefine>
</IfModule>
These are the default settings for Debian systems, and additional password protection.
Then you call a2enconf cgi-bin.
This has nothing to do with /etc/apache2/mods-enabled ! I cant find a reason to put cgi-code in there. Instead you will need to activate the common-gateway-interface via
a2enmod cgi
This will put a entry into /etc/apache2/mods-enabled.
Last but not least, you need to restart the server via /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
There you go.
Hope this will help.
Addition
You should run apache2ctl configtest to check your configuration, before restarting the server!
/var/log/apache2/ has also good info when something goes south.
You can also use the command systemctl status apache2.service to check the status of your service and journalctl -b -n 30 -u apache2.service to get the last 30 protocol entries.