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Asked: 2026-06-04T23:59:24+00:00

I have small CGI script running on a server[Linux OS]. following is a part

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I have small CGI script running on a server[Linux OS]. following is a part of script output..

<tr><td valign="center">Lol</td><td valign="center">10112</td><td><a 
href="/home/pathtopdf/abc.pdf">abc.pdf</a></td></tr>

But when I click on this abc.pdf hyperlink, browser displays error message:URL /home/pathtopdf/abc.pdf was not found on the server. while the pdf and path is definitely there and all files and folders in the path[including pdf] has full permission.

My server location is @ /srv/www and script in /srv/www/cgi-bin, but when I put the link to pdf as follows

<tr><td valign="center">Lol</td><td valign="center">10112</td><td><a 
href="/srv/www/for_html/abc.pdf">abc.pdf</a></td></tr>

The error message was The requested URL '/srv/www/for_html/abc.pdf' resolves to a file which is marked executable but is not a CGI file; retrieving it is forbidden. Again permission is there for files.

What could be the problemo?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your problem is that you try to request a file outside of the webroot. So by clicking that, the browser is really requesting

    http://example.com/home/pathtopdf/abc.pdf

    not

    /home/pathtopdf/abc.pdf

    You can edit your apache config file and add a virtual host to that directory under a subdomain (say downloads)

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