I'm on a MacBook running OS X trying to teach myself how to write CGI scripts and I'm stuck on the very first step, altering the httpd.conf
file. I'm following these instructions: http://www.cgi101.com/book/connect/mac.html and I'm trying to alter the httpd.conf
file using the terminal command sudo vim /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
. However when I get ready to try and save the file it says that it's read-only. The instructions that I'm following say that I'm supposed to uncomment the line AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
however, how am I supposed to do this if I can't save the file?
I'm very new to CGI scripts, Apache and terminal in general.
EDIT: The output from the command: ls -l /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
is:
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 24330 Jul 11 2011 /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
EDIT: When I try to save it says add ! to override
. When I do so using the command :!x
it exits out but produces the error launch_msg("CheckIn") IPC failure: Operation not permitted
.