From: Gervase Markham <gerv@gerv.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 13:24:25 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Bug 1183571 - tell people they need to enable the CGI module. r=LpSolit
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Bug 1183571 - tell people they need to enable the CGI module. r=LpSolit
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diff --git a/docs/en/rst/installing/apache.rst b/docs/en/rst/installing/apache.rst
index fe734b2229..856512a7f5 100644
--- a/docs/en/rst/installing/apache.rst
+++ b/docs/en/rst/installing/apache.rst
@@ -77,6 +77,14 @@ or, if not found, :file:`index.html` if someone only types the directory name
 into the browser; and allows Bugzilla's :file:`.htaccess` files to override
 some global permissions.
 
+On some Linux distributions you will need to enable the Apache CGI
+module. On Debian/Ubuntu, this is done with:
+
+:command:`sudo a2enmod cgi`
+
+If you find that the webserver is returning the Perl code as text rather
+than executing it, then this is the problem.
+
 .. _apache-mod_perl:
 
 Apache with mod_perl