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glenn_cm
Joined: 03 Oct 2013
Posts: 2
Location: USA, Newbury Park
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 Posted: Thu 03 Oct '13 23:19 Post subject: Allowing EXE file download (403 Forbidden error) |
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Hello. We're running a departmental intranet site on Apache 2.2 (on Windows Server 2003, if that matters). I'm trying to figure out how to post exe files on the web site so I can create a link and users can download the programs. I spent most of the day yesterday searching the internet for ideas and trying various changes to my httpd.conf file, but no matter what I tried I get a 403 Forbidden error and the error.log file shows an error "Options ExecCGI is off in this directory:...". I'm hoping someone here can give me some pointers. I realize this is probably an easy one, but I haven't done much with the Apache configuration and I'm afraid I'm stuck.
A few added details that might help: 1) I've tried putting the EXE in various folders. 2) I don't have a .htaccess file and I don't see anything in the httpd.conf file that seems to specifically relate to access for this file type. 3) If I put a zip file in the same folders, I am able to download or open it. 4) The httpd.conf file should be whatever was created when we installed Apache. We haven't been doing anything fancy with it.
Thanks in advance if anyone can help! |
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glsmith
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Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Posts: 2268
Location: Sun Diego, USA
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| Posted: Fri 04 Oct '13 3:45 Post subject: |
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All I can think of is that the .exe extension has been set as a cgi
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .exe .pl |
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glenn_cm
Joined: 03 Oct 2013
Posts: 2
Location: USA, Newbury Park
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| Posted: Sat 05 Oct '13 22:56 Post subject: Solved |
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| That did the trick! Thank you. |
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