From 074b14f6a51299ff7490becadadb006255b07015 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gervase Markham Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 14:24:25 +0100 Subject: Bug 1183571 - tell people they need to enable the CGI module. r=LpSolit --- docs/en/rst/installing/apache.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/en/rst/installing/apache.rst b/docs/en/rst/installing/apache.rst index fe734b222..856512a7f 100644 --- a/docs/en/rst/installing/apache.rst +++ b/docs/en/rst/installing/apache.rst @@ -77,6 +77,14 @@ or, if not found, :file:`index.html` if someone only types the directory name into the browser; and allows Bugzilla's :file:`.htaccess` files to override some global permissions. +On some Linux distributions you will need to enable the Apache CGI +module. On Debian/Ubuntu, this is done with: + +:command:`sudo a2enmod cgi` + +If you find that the webserver is returning the Perl code as text rather +than executing it, then this is the problem. + .. _apache-mod_perl: Apache with mod_perl -- cgit v1.2.3-24-g4f1b