CGI script runs when called directly, but not when it's the index

Question

Having never worked with CGI before (I'm a PHP person, really), I'm confused as to why my installation of Bugzilla won't display the index page correctly.

Before you ask:

• libapache2-mod-fastcgi is installed on the machine
• I have ExecCGI enabled for the directory in question
• I added .cgi as a handler as a cgi-script

When I access the script directly (by going to index.cgi), the script parses and renders correctly. When accessing the web root, the contents of index.cgi are displayed in plain text.

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

You need to add index.cgi to the DirectoryIndex list:

DirectoryIndex index.cgi

If you have some sort of redirect from / to index.cgi, remove it with this statement in effect. I have not tested this, but this is how I used to handle index.php on my system, back when I used php.