Thanks Tony, that worked. For reference this cgi works (returning the "fossil new" help text).
#!/bin/sh > > echo "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1" > echo > > echo Debugging and learning bash cgi scripting: > echo $GATEWAY_INTERFACE > unset GATEWAY_INTERFACE > > fossil help new > echo $GATEWAY_INTERFACE > echo End > Note: if you are on a shared host, you may need to replace "fossil help new" with "/path-to-fossil/fossil help new". This is because the cgi script will notpick up any .bash_profile settings you may have. (or set your $PATH env variable inside the cgi to wherever you have installed fossil) NB - is there anyway I can contribute to the documentation? On 7 March 2011 16:48, Tony Perovic <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at the source code, it looks like Fossil goes into CGI mode when it > sees that the GATEWAY_INTERFACE is defined or the cgi command line parameter > is specified. > > Try clearing GATEWAY_INTERFACE. > > Tony Perovic > Compumation, Inc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Gé Weijers > Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 10:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Basic question: how to create fossil web > service using bash cgi > > > > On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, David Bovill wrote: > > > My bash scripting is very basic. I've been trying to create some cgi's on > > the server that will let me create new fossil repos. I've this test cgi, > and > > am unable to issue the commands to fossil that I am able to in the > > terminal. > > fossil sees that the environment contains CGI variables and switches to > CGI mode. To make this work you'll have to purge the environment, I'm not > quite sure which variable you need to remove. > > Ge' > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >
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