can't access .gif in cgi-bin directory

[colet]

Hello,

When I try to serve a gif in my cgi-bin directory, I get 500 Internal Server Error and the error_log shows:
Premature end of script headers: /home/myhome/public_html/cgi-bin/my.gif

Searching the forum just shows problems with cgis not working.

I've editted my http.conf:
<Directory "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin">
#AllowOverride None
AllowOverride All
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

and added:
<Files ~ "\.gif$">
Options FollowSymLinks
Allow from all
</Files>

Then restarted apache, but I still get this error. I can work around the problem, but I'd like to understand why this doesn't work.

Thanks for any tips!

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Cole

 

[sparek-3]

You mention the gif file is at /home/myhome/public_html/cgi-bin/my.gif but say that you are making changes to code:

<Directory "/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin">

This is not the same.

I think the actual reason that you are seeing this message is because CPanel setups user's cgi-bin directories as a ScriptAlias. You will see this the VirtualHost section for that specific account.

The real issue is, why are you wanting to call an image in the cgi-bin directory? The cgi-bin directory is really intended for CGI scripts and is not set up to handle regular files such as images. I think a better solution would be to place this image into another directory on the account and call the images from that directory rather than from the cgi-bin directory.

 

[colet]

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I'm running htdig and have some menu bar js in the results header that is looking in the current working directory for arrow.gif. I thought I might just put a symlink to the real gif next to htsearch and be done with it. I've settled with mod rewrite as a workaround for now. I would just edit the java script, but it's not my code and I don't want it to break each time the site is updated.

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Cole