Web Blast Apache configuration (Error 403)

Question

I'm trying to run Web Blast 2.2.28+ locally trough Easy PHP Dev Server 13.1 (Apache 2.2, Windows 7),but when I click on search it shows ERROR 403 when I open it within my site or the following message appears (blast.cgi content), when I use directly the blast.html page:

#!/bin/csh -f
  #
  # $Id: blast.cgi,v 1.1 2002/08/06 19:03:51 dondosha Exp $
  #
  echo "Content-type: text/html"
  echo ""
  #setenv DEBUG_COMMAND_LINE TRUE
  setenv BLASTDB db
  ./blast.REAL

Apache was installed in "C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-DevServer-13.1VC9\binaries\apache\bin" and configured as the following (httpd.conf):

# Added below to get wwwblast to work
  AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
  <Directory "C:/Program Files (x86)/EasyPHP-DevServer-13.1VC9/data/localweb/original/cgi-bin/">
  AddHandler cgi-script .cgi REAL
  Options Indexes
  Options FollowSymLinks
  Options ExecCGI
  Options Indexes
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
  </Directory>

and the blast.html file is located in "C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-DevServer-13.1VC9\data\localweb\original\cgi-bin".

In the Apache Access log I found:

127.0.0.1 - - [08/Oct/2013:19:40:13 -0300] "GET /original/?area=tools HTTP/1.1" 200 1797
127.0.0.1 - - [08/Oct/2013:19:44:27 -0300] "POST /original/cgi-bin/blast.cgi HTTP/1.1" 403 1115

and in the Apache Error log:

[Tue Oct 08 19:44:27.607881 2013] [cgi:error] [pid 6084:tid 1036] [client 127.0.0.1:52298] Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: C:/Program Files (x86)/EasyPHP-DevServer-13.1VC9/data/localweb/original/cgi-bin/blast.cgi, referer: http://127.0.0.1/original/cgi-bin/blast.html

I really don't understand a little of Apache, but doesn't I activate ExecCGI in my httpd.conf ? I'm very confused.

I have been trying all the combinations I could have imagined (changing the path, file name, apache options sequence), but... nothing.

Can somebody help me? I need so bad, I've been trying to make it run since 2012.

Thank you all and sorry for any language problems =). Dimitrius

Answer 1

EDIT: Sorry, I missed the Windows 7 initially. Afaik, there is no windows version of the wwwblast binaries. Therefore, what you are trying to do here is not going to work. You have several options:

• switch to supported OS (Linux, MacOs, FreeBSD, Solaris)
• use something else (e.g. Sequenceserver or ViroBlast)
• try to compile from source on Windows (good luck)

The rest below is just a minor mistake.

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You seem to have missed the "+"s:

 Options +ExecCGI

not

 Options ExecCGI

And also Options +Indexes etc. The apache config requires either + or - for boolean options to turn them on or off.

In addition, wouldn't this question be better suited on serverfault because it is about server configuration and not programming?

See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/cgi.html