Weird Apache errors
Context: You’ve recently switched to apache2 with separate vhost configurations in sites-enabled and you are trying to get CGI scripts to execute in a directory called something other than “cgi-bin“. You’ve turned on the ExecCGI option for the directory.
Symptom: You are getting “Access Forbidden” errors, and your server’s error log shows “Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden”
Further context: You’re not running any RewriteRules.
Solution: Uncomment the line AddHandler cgi-script .cgi in your main apache2.conf file.
Reason this is the error you get: Hell if I know.
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