My apologies to all of those I have offended. I've been participating in
mailing lists for six years and I've seen many become congested and useless
because of innocent and off-topic posts. That's part of the reason I
switched to Mandrake from SuSE.
BTW, it is not a mandrake thing. It is a CGI thing. This will happen with
any distro or for that matter any OS if you don't set your headers correctly.
I'll keep my mouth shut from now on, but I urge you that have criticized me
for my post to read the page on the mandrake site that says this list is
for advanced questions pertaining to the mandrake distro.
At 06:13 PM 7/24/99 -0400, James J. Capone wrote:
>It is also a Mandrake thing. I do believe(correct me if i am wrong) by
>default you can not run a .cgi script onless you run it from the cgi-bin
>file. Or you could symlink the directory to said cgi-bin directory. So this
>would be a Mandrake problem also. A flam war is not helping this person. So
>please just let it go and be on with it. This message would only be about 6
>to 7 threads had you not said it was a question that did not belong here.
>
>Thanks,
>
>James J. Capone
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jason Bodnar
>Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 5:33 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert] cgi scripts
>
>His problem is a common novice cgi problem. The correct way to handle it
>first would be to seek help from a CGI list before assuming it was a
>mandrake problem.
>
>At 10:32 AM 7/24/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>Jason Bodnar wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't want to be the jerk of the list but this is definitely not a
>>> question relating to mandrake. Could you please ask it in a more
>>> appropriate forum.
>>
>>I disagree with you. The fellow is using an Apache web server on
>>a Mandrake 6.0 server.
>>
>>Because packages install differently on different Linux distros,
>>and different Unix systems, a lot of problems are related to the
>>type and location of libraries, and other distribution-specific
>>things.
>>
>>It is entirely possible his cgi-script problem ONLY arises in
>>Mandrake. And even if not, the answer to his problem may not
>>be correct or applicable to him if answered by an AIX or HPUX
>>sysadm.
>>
>>Mandrake is a distribution employing many different componets;
>>many of them tweaked by RedHat and Mandrake to specific
>>configuration and purposes. If an individual has ANY problems
>>when using Mandrake, then THIS is the apporpiate venue to ask
>>questions.
>>
>>More specifically, he has a problem with a <DOCTYPE...> header.
>>This could well be Mandrake specific. There is an HTML validation
>>service at http://validator.w3.org/ which may be able to answer
>>his problem. It does have extensive documentation and help on
>>the <DOCTYPE...> tags. Basically I think that either his tag
>>is wrong, or it mentions an HTML level which his Apache server
>>does not understand. Running the web page with cgi script past
>>the validator should yield the answer.
>>
>>
>>
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