Many of your potential Virtual Subhosting clientele will want cgi-bin access.... this can easily be configured for a Virtual Subhost using the ScriptAlias directive in the ~/www/conf/httpd.conf file on your Virtual Server (or the ~/www/conf/srm.conf file, if you Virtual Server was configured before Dec. 8, 1998). For example, the www.yourname.org site has its own cgi-bin. This can easily be added to the Virtual Subhost definition by simply using the "ScriptAlias" directive as show below:

# point www.yourname.org and yourname.org to subdirectory yourname
<VirtualHost www.yourname.org yourname.org>
ServerName www.yourname.org
ServerAdmin webmaster@yourname.org
DocumentRoot /usr/local/etc/httpd/vhosts/yourname
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/etc/httpd/vhosts/yourname/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>


You will need to create the cgi-bin directory that you define using the ScriptAlias directive. You can create the directory by connecting to your Virtual Server and issuing the command: