I have a class of cgi/perl students, some of whom can only use Knoppix at home when not in the classroom (where we have a Redhat box). I want them to be able to run .cgi scripts through apache to test their perl scripts. They can then save the scripts in their home directory (using K menu > KNOPPIX > Configure > Create a persistent K home directory).

I cannot, however, find a cgi-bin in /var/www and, if I use sudo mkdir to create it, I cannot write to it. They can test their scripts for syntax errors (using perl -c testScript.cgi), but they cannot debug the full output from, say, test.html which calls test.cgi; this kind of debugging requires the apache server to serve the output of a perl script in .cgi form. Any ideas?

Bill Stanard