> 
> You are providing no information whatsoever, so let me try a shot in
> the utter dark and hope i don't hit any of the cats on your couch:

I am very new to this field so sorry for the vagueness!

> 
> Maybe you are running httpd(8) chroot(2)ed but don't have any sh(1)
> binary in the chroot?  That's a common error.

I did read about this and put sh into /var/www/bin but it still didn’t work.

> 
> By the way, putting a shell binary in a chroot (or any other
> interpreter for that matter, like PHP) is an ugly thing to do, so
> a good alternative might be to write the redirect CGI program in C
> as well (which you already managed to do for something more
> complicated), or even simpler, make it a static HTML page and tell
> httpd.conf(5) with location { no fastcgi } and types { } to simply
> serve it as text/html, even if the name ends in *.cgi or something
> like that.

This is the real answer.  If scripts a cgi programs is bad practice, I won’t do 
it.  Again, I am very new to this area of programming and I am as interested in 
the “should I” as much as the “can I”.

Thanks!

Jordon

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