Thanks - I'll give it a try. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 February 2005 19:51 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: CGI
There is another option. You can change the CGI servlet mapping to use extension mapping. If you map it to *.cgi or *.pl or whatever you use on your system, CGI scripts in the 'normal' web app path should be served by the CGI servlet. Mark Kelly, Steve wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Yes, thanks. That confirms what I'm seeing. Only problem is I have > some freebie product (the Spellchecker plugin for HTMLArea) that needs > to execute a perl script to call the Aspell spell checker, which gets > invoked from somewhere inside the plugin's javascript I believe using > some form of relative addressing. Does this mean I either need to edit > the javascript or I can't do it ? > > Steve. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 February 2005 19:28 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: CGI > > Kelly, Steve wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>Is the following consistent with how CGI perl scripts should execute >>under a tomcat webapp? >> >>I have a webapp called mywebapp and a perl script called myperl The >>web.xml file contains the following: >> >> <servlet> >> <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name> >> >><servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</servlet-class> >> <init-param> >> <param-name>clientInputTimeout</param-name> >> <param-value>100</param-value> >> </init-param> >> <init-param> >> <param-name>debug</param-name> >> <param-value>6</param-value> >> </init-param> >> <init-param> >> <param-name>executable</param-name> >> <param-value>perl</param-value> >> </init-param> >> <init-param> >> <param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name> >> <param-value>WEB-INF/cgi</param-value> >> </init-param> >> <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup> >> </servlet> >> >>and >> >> <servlet-mapping> >> <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name> >> <url-pattern>/cgi-bin/*</url-pattern> >> </servlet-mapping> >> >>If I enter the url //localhost:8080/mywebapp/WEB-INF/cgi/myperl I get >>a "resource unavailable" error. > > > Correct. Resources under WEB-INF are not directly accessible. > > >>If I enter the url //localhost:8080/mywebapp/cgi-bin/myperl it >>executes the myperl script successsfully. > > > Also correct. > > >> >>If I edit the web.xml file to change the cgiPathPrefix to, for >>example, myscripts/cgi and then I enter the url >>//localhost:8080/mywebapp/myscripts/cgi/myperl it simply displays the >>perl script code. > > > This is as expected for the configuration settings. However, I > wouldn't want to run my server like this. It is usually a bad thing > (tm) from a security point of view to expose your CGI script. > > >>Again if I enter the url //localhost:8080/mywebapp/cgi-bin/myperl it >>executes the myperl script successsfully. > > > Also, as expected from the config settings. > > HTH, > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
