[nag] Accessing CGI directly

[Jon Parise]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:55:21PM -0400, Cort Tompkins wrote:

> I'm running the (near) latest horde, imp, and turba CVSes on a
> commercial webhost's shared server.  Seeing that they don't let
> me restart Apache (imagine that) I'm forced to use a separate
> CGI binary for PHP.  It is my understanding that with a CGI php
> it is necessary for security reasons to compile it with
> force-cgi-redirect enabled, which means that if you try to
> access the PHP cgi binary directly from a script you'll get a
> big "oh no you don't" error.  Imp and turba don't attempt this
> but apparently Nag does.  I ran into this while trying to add a
> task.
 
I'm not sure I follow you.  What is the problem you're
encountering?  Please provide error messages, etc.

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Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
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