That cgi-bin mystery

[cerbere]

Hello everyone,

For two weeks now, my scripts (Perl and PHP) are being blocked, apparently
because they are in my cgi-bin directory. I just thought that it was the right place
for them when using POST and GET methods.

So my question is this : can such scripts be in another directory and still
execute correctly ? What is special about the cgi-bin directory ?

Thanks for any advice you can provide.

Account : rocambol
URL : ixedix.x10hosting.com

P.S. : Why no mention of that issue in Service Alerts or News and Announcements ? I understand that X10-Free Hosting is suffering
heavy abuse from hackers (I had a good laugh at "My little brother
uploaded a proxy"), but must all bonafide users suffer from that ?

 

[Brandon]

Hello,

It dosn't really matter because of how the permissions are setup, pearl/python won't run at all right now due to the abuse (disabled), and you can move the PHP to any directory it will load fine.

 

[cerbere]

So, why didn't X10 administrators simply block pearl(sic)/python execution,
instead of blocking cgi-bin directory access ? Now I have to move most
of my pages/scripts and edit them to reflect the changes.

What is so special about PERL that warrants its banning, compared to PHP ?

And again, why no word about that issue in Service Alerts or News and
Announcements ? I realize that this is free hosting, and we are not entitled
to any claims, but still...