Fri 5th September, 2008.

Setting up the BCIM Virtual Machine wasn't a straightforward job. Tom (in ICT) experimented initially with suEXEC on Unix, but eventually decided instead to use the latest version of cgiwrap which, unlike the previous versions that have been in use at LSBU up until now, no longer requires awkward URLs to invoke the cgi scripts. The important thing is that scripts execute with their owner's privileges, which provides better audit trails, and isolation in the sense of protecting users from a rogue script in someone else's Unix account. Getting the mod_rewrite URL redirects to work properly via a combination of the .htaccess files at root level and in the Drupal host account was particularly tricky.