Patch submitted by Tony Stevenson, modifications by myself.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@545841 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/manual/howto/cgi.html.en b/docs/manual/howto/cgi.html.en
index 31276db23ade15b424267508e5e7e0fb1adb720e..0940a54456993cee0006b16d43de529364d26ffa 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/howto/cgi.html.en
+++ b/docs/manual/howto/cgi.html.en
@@ -54,6 +54,17 @@
     need to have Apache configured to permit CGI execution. There
     are several ways to do this.</p>
 
+    <div class="warning">Note: If Apache has been built with shared module
+    support you need to ensure that the module is loaded; in your
+    <code>httpd.conf</code> you need to make sure the
+    <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_so.html#loadmodule">LoadModule</a></code>
+    directive has not been commented out.  A correctly configured directive
+    may look like this:
+
+    <div class="example"><p><code>
+      LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
+    </code></p></div></div>
+
     <h3><a name="scriptalias" id="scriptalias">ScriptAlias</a></h3>
       
 

diff --git a/docs/manual/howto/cgi.xml b/docs/manual/howto/cgi.xml
index 83e208389c2cba098af87d99c0a5e95f8a9c46b5..5e580088ab941161fadd36acc681fc912dae0ce5 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/howto/cgi.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/howto/cgi.xml
@@ -57,6 +57,17 @@
     need to have Apache configured to permit CGI execution. There
     are several ways to do this.</p>
 
+    <note type="warning">Note: If Apache has been built with shared module
+    support you need to ensure that the module is loaded; in your
+    <code>httpd.conf</code> you need to make sure the
+    <directive module="mod_so">LoadModule</directive>
+    directive has not been commented out.  A correctly configured directive
+    may look like this:
+
+    <example>
+      LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
+    </example></note>
+
     <section id="scriptalias">
       <title>ScriptAlias</title>