Mitch,
Are you able to execute your scripts on the command line?
Keith Lynn
Systems Administrator
School of Computer and Information Sciences
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36608
Phone: (334) 460-6390
Fax: (334) 460-7274
Alternate E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Here is the cgi script:
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> #! usr/bin/perl
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> use CGI;
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> $query = new CGI;
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> print $query->header;
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> print "<html><head><title>Test</title></head>\n";
> print "<body>The test was successful.</body></html>";
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> I also used this script before, but it didn't work either, same error:
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> #! usr/bin/perl
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> print"content-type: text/html\n\n";
> print "<html><head><title>Test</title></head>\n";
> print "<body>The test was successful.</body></html>";
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> ndrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Is CGI
>set up for user accounts from normal
> install?
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> 01/04/02 10:11 AM
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> Thanks, everyone, for the help so far. I'm still having problems though. I
> made a public_html directory in my home directory and entered the
> <directory> entry for it in commonhttpd.conf, where all other such entries
> are located. (commonhttpd.conf is included into httpd.conf with "Include.")
> Now at least the cgi file is found when I run it -- I no longer get the
> "file not found" error. But now I get a 500 Internal Server error. Here are
> the error messages from the httpd error log from today:
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> [Fri Jan 4 08:32:53 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of
> /home/mitch/www/htdocs/myscript.cgi failed
> [Fri Jan 4 08:32:53 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.51] Premature end of
> script headers: /home/mitch/www/htdocs/myscript.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:15:43 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Directory index
> forbidden by rule: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/
> [Fri Jan 4 09:16:01 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:16:28 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:18:06 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:22:53 2002] [warn] child process 9685 still did not exit,
> sending a SIGTERM
> [Fri Jan 4 09:22:54 2002] [warn] child process 9686 still did not exit,
> sending a SIGTERM
> [Fri Jan 4 09:22:54 2002] [warn] child process 9688 still did not exit,
> sending a SIGTERM
> [Fri Jan 4 09:22:54 2002] [warn] child process 9692 still did not exit,
> sending a SIGTERM
> [Fri Jan 4 09:23:11 2002] [alert] httpd: Could not determine the server's
> fully qualified domain name, using 130.164.62.79 for ServerName
> [Fri Jan 4 09:23:11 2002] [notice] Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.20
> (Mandrake Linux/3mdk) mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6b configured -- resuming
> normal operations
> [Fri Jan 4 09:23:11 2002] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper:
> /usr/sbin/suexec)
> [Fri Jan 4 09:23:51 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:33:06 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:37:06 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:38:56 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> [Fri Jan 4 09:39:37 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.pl
> [Fri Jan 4 09:50:53 2002] [error] [client 130.164.62.79] Premature end of
> script headers: /home/mitch/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
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> mitch
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> Keith Lynn
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> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> uthal.edu> cc:
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> Subject: Re: [newbie] Is CGI
> set up for user accounts from normal
> 01/03/02 install?
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> Mitch,
> One possible problem you might be having is that /cgi-bin is mapped
> to a certain directory with ScriptAlias.
> Suppose you wanted the user wilson to run cgi scripts in a directory
> called cgi-bin through the URL .../~wilson/cgi-bin, then you need to have
> the Directory Directive with the absolute path to that directory
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> <Directory /home/wilson/public_html/cgi-bin>
> AddHandler cgi-script cgi
> Options +ExecCGI
> </Directory>
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> Then make sure that /home/wilson/public_html/cgi-bin has world execute
> permission and the scripts in that directory have world execute
> permission.
> If you still have problems, let me know.
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> Keith Lynn
> Systems Administrator
> School of Computer and Information Sciences
> University of South Alabama
> Mobile, AL 36608
> Phone: (334) 460-6390
> Fax: (334) 460-7274
> Alternate E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/
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> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > So far it's still not working. I get a "file not found" error. Is
> > "www/cis/cgi-bin" relative to what I set as DocumentRoot? In otherwords,
> do
> > I need to include the full path to the cgi bin or just the part after
> > documentroot? Or does documentroot even have anything to with this? I set
> > documentroot to /home/mitch/www/htdocs. If the cgi bin is in
> > /home/mitch/www/cgi-bin, what do I do in <Directory>?
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> > Because I have a directory structure like:
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> > /home/mitch/www/htdocs/myscript.html
> > /home/mitch/www/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi
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> > Here's what I have in my html file calling the cgi:
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> > <form method="post" action="../cgi-bin/myscript.cgi">
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> > I thought maybe trying to go up one directory ../ to get into the cgi-bin
> > might be causing a problem, because documentroot was
> > /home/mitch/www/htdocs. I don't know, but it just seemed to be making
> > things not-so simple and straightforward. So I changed it to:
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> > /home/mitch/www/htdocs/myscript.html
> > /home/mitch/www/htdocs/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi
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> > Then I redid the permissions and the html file to say action
> > ="cgi-bin/myscript.cgi" and again as "/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi" but neither
> > worked. I still get the "file not found" error.
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> > Would I get a "file not found" error because of an apache configuration
> > problem?
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> > mitch
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> > Keith Lynn
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> > Subject: Re: [newbie] Is CGI
> set up for user accounts from normal
> > 01/03/02 install?
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> > Hi Mitch,
> > In order to allow cgi scripts to run, you need to give them
> > permission in your httpd.conf file. Suppose you want to have scripts
> > ending in .cgi in the directory /www/cis/cgi-bin to be interpreted as
> > scripts. Then you would include the following in your httpd.conf file.
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> > <Directory /www/cis/cgi-bin>
> > AddHandler cgi-script cgi
> > Options +ExecCGI
> > </Directory>
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> > Then make sure that permissions are set (at least world execute on
> > directories and scripts), and you should be able to run scripts. If you
> > need any other help, let me know.
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> > Keith Lynn
> > Systems Administrator
> > School of Computer and Information Sciences
> > University of South Alabama
> > Mobile, AL 36608
> > Phone: (334) 460-6390
> > Fax: (334) 460-7274
> > Alternate E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > URL: http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/~lynn/
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> > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > I have a server on an intranet. Is CGI already set up? If so, where do
> I
> > > put my CGIs for new users? I tried to add a cgi-bin to a user's home
> > > directory, for myself, because I was worried about running CGIs as
> root,
> > if
> > > that would even happen. So, I made a cgi-bin and set the permissions,
> but
> > I
> > > get a "You don't have permission" error message. The permissions were
> set
> > > to 755, so everyone could read and execute but only I could write. I
> > > checked this over and over. Is there some reason that I can't *yet* run
> > > CGIs other than file permissions? I tried FTPing the files as ascii and
> I
> > > tried just writing them on the linux machine. I've also used stock,
> very
> > > easy intro scripts that just return "Hello world" to the browser. And
> > I've
> > > successfully used CGI on my personal machine hosted by professionals.
> It
> > > appears to me -- I installed Mandrake myself -- that CGI isn't set up
> > > correctly for a user account. How do I do that?
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> > > Could someone either explain or point me to some place where I can read
> > how
> > > to set up CGI for users on Mandrake Linux running Apache? Everthing I
> > find
> > > is either just reference material -- which doesn't help if you're a
> > newbie
> > > -- or how to write CGIs.
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