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Old May 4th, 2001, 07:13 AM
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I am pretty sure that I seen the answer to this once before, but I tred to find some documentation on it with no luck.

Should the cgi-bin directory be above the DocumentRoot or is that not completely necessary.
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Hi!

The standard Apache configuration keeps cgi-bin above docroot and sets a ScriptAlias called '/cgi-bin'. However all webspace providers I worked with, had cgi-bin actually in the documentroot, mostly for ease of use of the customer's ftp uploads, I guess.

I don't know if this is a security risk, though.

No real help, I know, but I thought I'd better say what I knew.

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exactly, what I was thinking.

Well I will keep looking and post my results when I find them.

Thanks for the reply, it confirmed that I wasn't as crazy as I thought I was!
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