[Xymon] apache trying to execute cgi man pages - SOLVED

[Bruce Ferrell]

Yeah, maybe, except it's how apache does multi-language page support i.e:

help.fr.html
help.en.html
help.cn.html

etc



On 5/19/16 6:53 AM, hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net wrote:
>
> Glad you figured it out.
>
> Given that the file name has "cgi.1.html", I'd consider the handling 
> as a multi-extension to be a bug.
>
> On 2016-05-19 2:51, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
>
>> I didn't find the problem directive, BUT I did find that apache 2 interprets files like these as multi extension files (i.e. both cgi AND html are extensions, cgi being found first)
>>
>> SO I added the following to the bottom of xymon-apache.conf:
>>
>> <FilesMatch \.html>
>>    SetHandler text/html
>> </FilesMatch>
>>
>> forcing the html man pages to html
>>
>>
>> On 05/18/2016 07:33 AM,hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net <mailto:hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net>wrote:
>>> I'd look through the Apache configs for a regex that matches the 
>>> folder (or objects with ".cgi"), probably in a ScriptAliasMatch or 
>>> LocationMatch directive (although there are a number of other 
>>> candidates). On 2016-05-18 3:35, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
>>>> I'm getting some errors that are making me nuts when I access the 
>>>> man pages for the cgi programs The apache log shows this: Options 
>>>> ExecCGI is off in this directory: 
>>>> /home/xymon/server/www/help/manpages/man1/ackinfo.cgi.1.html, 
>>>> referer: http://server.org/xymon/help/manpages/man1/ And of course, 
>>>> when I add ExecCGI I get: Premature end of script headers: 
>>>> ackinfo.cgi.1.html The server is scientific linux 6 Suggestions? 
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