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Web Blast Apache Configuration (Error 403)

Hi,

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".

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

blast error

You can check the apache log file for the server-side error message, which is likely informative. Aside from that, what are the permissions on that file? Whatever user the apache server is running as needs sufficient permissions.

Also, this isn't really related to bioinformatics. You'd get better help on a windows or "wamp" forum.

Closed as off topic and cross-post, now you got an answer on SO. However, the best place might be serverfault, not SO because it is about serverconfiguration, and I agree with dpryan that this is not related to computational biology.

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