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From: pixel@yoda.coe.missouri.edu (James P. Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: HELP: Two server issues.
Date: 11 Sep 1996 05:23:00 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Columbia
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To: Jim Harlan <harlan%ceddec@mcimail.com>

In article <32303E7B.391E@mcimail.com>,
	Jim Harlan <harlan%ceddec@mcimail.com> writes:
>OK.  I've read the FAQ, but what I want to know is contained within.
>
>Two questions:
>  1) How do you determine what version of server a site is running?
>     Be it your own, or someone else's.

This doesn't always work, but let's say you want to find out what web
server www.apache.org uses (I wonder!), do this:

telnet www.apache.org 80
(you should see something like:
    Trying 204.152.144.38...
    Connected to www.apache.org.
    Escape character is '^]'. )
    
Then type:
HEAD / HTTP/1.0  (and two carriage returns)

You'll get back something like:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 05:17:53 GMT
Server: Apache/1.2-dev
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: Apache=yoda14538842419115287; path=/
Last-Modified: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 23:45:39 GMT
ETag: "cf30f-20c3-0"


>  2) I included the following line on an HTML page,
>	<!--#exec cgi="~me/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi" -->
>     My .htaccess file looks like, it has a mode of 644:
> 	Options ExecCGI
> 	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
>	AddType application/x-httpd-cgi .cgi
>	AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .shtml
>     It is contained in the directory that has the .shtml file, not
>the       cgi script.
>     The error I get is "[an error occured while processing
>this              directive]"

hmmm...not sure here.  It could be that the main access.conf does not 
allow some of those options to be overridden....But that's just a guess.
Hopefully someone else will have a better clue.

-- James

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                        James Paul Cooper * Pixel
                         MU College of Education
       pixel@coe.missouri.edu - http://tiger.coe.missouri.edu/~pixel/
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