SID-02316: Apache 2.4 incorrectly handling twiki .pl files

Status:	Asked	TWiki version:	5.1.4	Perl version:
Category:		Server OS:	Centos 7	Last update:	8 years ago

I recently upgraded to Apache 2.4 from 2.2 and since then the twiki .pl files are being downloaded by the browser instead of being executed. Mod_perl and mod_cgi are up to date and enabled in the conf file. In the conf file I also included the following line

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

Is there anything else I need to do to make apache handle the .pl files correctly?

-- TWiki Guest - 2017-06-05

Discussion and Answer

There are some strange things here:

• On Linux systems, there's usually no need for a .pl suffix.
• mod_perl requires SetHandler perl-script for the bin directory, with an exception for configure.

Probably your best bet is to create a fresh Apache config file with TWiki's ApacheConfigGenerator which provides "working" configurations for Apache 2.2 and Apache 2.4, with and without mod_perl, and compare it with your settings. If you directly compare the Configurator's settings for 2.2 and 2.4, you'll spot a difference:

Apache's info for upgrading from 2.2 to 2.4 explains why: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html

-- Harald Jörg - 2017-06-06

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