[Lusitanian]

Ok I got another question. I have webmail on my FreeBSD box but to access it I have to type out http://www.mydomain.net/cgi-bin/mail.pl.

How do I go about accessing the webmail by just typing in http://webmail.mydomain.net? Does it have to do with virtual hosts in the httpd.conf file?

[frisco]

You need both a dns entry and a VirtualHost entry for webmail.example.net.

[Lusitanian]

Ok I have the dns entry and I added a virtual host entry into httpd.conf but I get an error message that resembles something like: You do not have permission to access "/" However, my files aren't in "/"

[elmore]

/ is relative to the document root you defined. so if your http doc root is /home/website the webserver reports /home/website to be /


make sense?


now go and chmod your files so the www user can read them

[frisco]

If you made the DocumenrRoot of the virtualhost point to the cgi-bin of the other host, then you probably also want to set DirectoryIndex to 'mall.pl' so that mail.pl shows up when only a directory is specified.

Your current error sounds like you don't have the Indexes option set for the DocumentRoot of webmail.example.com, in which case webmail.example.com/mail.pl should work (if docroot is indeed the aforementioned cgi-bin)