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Jean-Jierre,
On 6/23/20 08:55, jean-pierre.urk...@devoteam.com.INVALID wrote:
> Can anyone clarify on how to configure Tomcat 8.5 to serve an
> external executable? The CGI-HowTo documentation is VERY unclear to
> me.
>
> So let's say I have an application installed under 'c:\myApp' that
> provides a CGI executable 'c:\myApp\cgi\myapp.exe' now how do I
> configure Tomcat to have requests to http://localhost/myApp to call
> the c:\myApp\cgi\myapp.exe executable?
Is myapp.exe a CGI-aware program? Or do you need to proxy from
HTTP-CGI to some intermediate communication language and back again?
> I tried to add a context.xml file named myapp.xml to
> {TOMCAT_BASE}\conf\catalina\localhost with following content:
You can also bundle this file into your web application under
META-INF/context.xml which may (or may not) be more convenient.
> path="/myApp" reloadable="false" privileged="true"
> swallowOutput="true" workDir="work\Catalina\localhost\myApp">
>
>
Remove the "path" attribute: it's not legal in this location. The name
of the file (myapp[.xml]) dictates the context path.
> But that doesn't seem to work, it will try to download the
> myapp.exe file.
Did you modify web.xml in any particular way? If not, it's never going
to work because all you have done is deploy a web application hosted
at C:\myapp\cgi".
Just because a file is named .exe doesn't make it special in any way.
How else would you download .exe files if they were always executed
when you requested them?
In order to use CGI, you need to configure the CGI servlet.
The documentation can be found here:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/cgi-howto.html
Give that a read and see if you can get further.
Please understand that CGI on Windows is essentially impossible to run
securely if you need to pass command-line arguments provided by the
client to the script. Please see the Security Considerations[1] page
and search for CGI for more information.
- -chris
[1] https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/security-howto.html
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