Re: PHP Security on Apache

Have a look here: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/php/2003-04/0007.html Then after reading that, have a look at the ini_set, this might work...not 100% craig "Jonathan Wilkes" <jonathan@callview.com> wrote in message news:B7A83DB6E1CFD6119EA100A0C945122602D513@SWANSVR-01... > I am VERY new to PHP (and I think it's very cool). but I am trying to get a > PHP script working (through Apache) that I have written, but keep on getting > the following error when I try to run it from one of my HTML pages. > > "Security Alert! The PHP CGI cannot be accessed directly. > This PHP CGI binary was compiled with force-cgi-redirect enabled. This means > that a page will only be served up if the REDIRECT_STATUS CGI variable is > set, e.g. via an Apache Action directive." > > I understand what the error means and that most of you would recommend > removing the setting from the PHP configuration file on my web server, but I > cannot, I don't have access to that. > > I think that another solution would be to set an environment variable, > "REDIRECT_STATUS", but I don't know what to or where.... > > Has anyone else had to do this ? and can you help me ? > > thanks, > Jonathan > >