Re: A cgi server that can be run from a /home/dir ?

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 04/29/05 

Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:59:57 +0200

In comp.os.linux.misc censored <censored@dontemailme.com>:
> Hi.

> My situation. I bought 6 months worth of service from a unix shell
> provider. Part of the deal was that that the public_html/ dir in the shell
> would be cgi-enabled, but they haven't followed through on the deal. I've
> chatted with admin dude on irc, and he keeps trying to get the directory
> cgi enabled ... but he never seems to get it together.

> I don't want to hassle them too much, because they tolerate alot from me
> already, above and beyond what's permitted by the Terms Of Service. But
> ... I really would like cgi.

> So, I was hoping to find a small, portable cgi server I can install in my
> shell all by myself. Presuming it leaves a really small cpu/ram footprint,
> hopefully I can negotiate with the admin dude that he should allow me to
> do that, given that he has failed to live up to his part of the deal.

> Any recommendations?

Sounds remotely like FAQ:

13. How do I allow each of my user directories to have a cgi-bin
directory?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ-F.html#user-cgi

For security reasons and to ease up things for people using their
own .cgi, I'd setup apache suEXEC support in addition, which
might not be available in some distro apache packages without
recompile.

Good luck

BTW
Looks to me as if you'd qualify better to mangle the above in
something more polite. 

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