CGI-PHP error and Redirection Issue Wordpress MU

Question

Hi,

I installed wordpress Mu at http://www.optimalthinking.com/community/wp-admin/install.php

But when I visit http://www.optimalthinking.com/community/

I get

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.

For more information as to why this behaviour exists, see the manual page for CGI security.

For more information about changing this behaviour or re-enabling this webserver, consult the installation file that came with this distribution, or visit the manual page.

Can anyone tell me what's the problem and how it can be fixed.

Things I have tried so far:

1. Reinstalled the WPMU
2. http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/5529
3. http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/ticket/502
4. Tried changing .htaccess

All these things didnt yield any results. If stackoverflow allows me, I would reward anybody who would fix this.

Thanks

Answer 1

In my opinion it have something to do with your configuration, for some reasons script trying to redirect user to cgi-bin folder which is private.

Answer 2

From http://us3.php.net/security.cgi-bin

PHP CGI with VirtualHosts.

This is what I found out while trying to get php to work as CGI with Apache VirtualHosts.

By enabling 'force-cgiredirects', you *must*:
1) set 'cgi.fix_pathinfo=1' in php.ini
2) leave doc_root commented out (php.ini also)

If you miss item 1, the apache logs will show 'unexpected T_STRING' in the php binary.
If you miss item 2, you'll only see 'No input file specified.', instead of the expected output.

You can then turn on the php support for a particular vhost by defining:

Action php-script /cgi-bin/php

inside the corresponding <VirtualHost> directive.

Cheers.

Answer 3

You need to fix your php.ini

Add/fix this line:

force_cgi_redirect = 0

Thanks to FAQTS and Google