Well what is not working. You need to give us an error message and not just
not working. There can be lots of reasons for a script to fail. Probably
the most popular is because your environment is not set up correctly for the
user nobody or www. Also did you set your script permissions to chmod 755?
Ilya
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Modi Ketan-G17361 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 8:49 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Can't run Oracle from cgi script from Browser using DBI
>
>
> Hi
>
> This is the first time I am using the dbi users group.
>
> Before reporting this problem I surf the web a lot and understand
> that so many users has similar problems.
>
> I tried to use the suggestions mentioned and still I am stuck.
>
> My problem is I use BEGIN block in .cgi script to setup
> ORACLE_HOME,LD_LIBRARY_PATH & PATH env. variables.
>
> Now I am trying to use dbi module and it is not working from browser.
>
> I also head .pl version of script which is working fine from
> Solaris 2.6 command prompt.
>
> My web server is Netscape Enterprise.
>
> I also learned about "nobody" webserver user when you start the
> webserver. I also learnt that we can specify the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> in the shell of webserver. Frankly speaking I don't know how to
> do that and neither do I get web expertise within my department.
>
> I attached herewith the cgi script.
>
>
> I appreciate your help.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Ketan
> <<hello_1.cgi>>
>
>
