[gentoo-user] OT - Apache, userdir, and CGI with suexec

[Michael Sullivan]

I use userdir on Apache on my server box.  In /etc/apache2/httpd.conf I
have UserDir set to webspace/html instead of public_html.  I want to
create a webspace/cgi-bin directory for each of my users to store (and
access) their CGI scripts in (cgi-bin should be outside the DocumentRoot
for security purposes), and I want the CGI scripts to execute as the
users they belong to.  However, I read somewhere that Apache with CGI
under UserDirs will trip if not configured properly at compile time.  I
think I need to alter something in the ebuild for Apache, and I think
it's value of the USERDIR variable, but what do I need to change it to
to get this to work?  The document root of all users is ~/webspace/html,
but the user's CGI directory is ~/webspace/cgi-bin.  What do I need to
change the USERDIR variable in the ebuild to to get this to work?

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