On Jul 11, 2008, at 5:14 PM, Peter L. Berghold wrote:
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Hey folks,
I've been doing web searches looking for the answer to this and I
can't
find my Geronimo book wherever I put it last. I am trying enable the
processing of CGI scripts on Geronimo.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Should be doable. I don't recall hearing about anyone who's set this
up on Geronimo, however. If you're willing to run some experiments, I
expect that we can help get it running...
Are you using Tomcat or Jetty as your web container?
Here's general info for Tomcat --
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/cgi-howto.html
Here's general info for Jetty --
http://jetty.mortbay.org/jetty5/faq/faq_s_900-Content_t_CGI.html
Now a matter of getting this running in Geronimo. Assuming you're
using Tomcat as a web container, I'd deploy this as a web-app:
Place your scripts in WEB-INF/cgi/
Borrowing from the tomcat instructions use this as your WEB-INF/web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd
"
version="2.5" >
<!-- Common Gateway Includes (CGI) processing servlet, which
supports -->
<!-- execution of external applications that conform to the CGI
spec -->
<!-- requirements. Typically, this servlet is mapped to the URL
pattern -->
<!-- "/cgi-bin/*", which means that any CGI applications that
are -->
<!-- executed must be present within the web application. This
servlet -->
<!-- supports the following initialization parameters (default
values -->
<!-- are in square
brackets): -->
<
!-- -->
<!-- cgiPathPrefix The CGI search path will start
at -->
<!-- webAppRootDir + File.separator + this
prefix. -->
<!-- [WEB-INF/
cgi] -->
<
!-- -->
<!-- debug Debugging detail level for messages
logged -->
<!-- by this servlet.
[0] -->
<
!-- -->
<!-- executable Name of the exectuable used to run
the -->
<!-- script.
[perl] -->
<
!-- -->
<!-- parameterEncoding Name of parameter encoding to be used
with -->
<!-- CGI
servlet. -->
<!--
[System.getProperty("file.encoding","UTF-8")] -->
<
!-- -->
<!-- passShellEnvironment Should the shell environment variables
(if -->
<!-- any) be passed to the CGI script?
[false] -->
<
!-- -->
<!-- IMPORTANT: To use the CGI servlet, you also need to rename
the -->
<!-- $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/servlets-cgi.renametojar
file -->
<!-- to $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/servlets-
cgi.jar -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</
servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>debug</param-name>
<param-value>0</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name>
<param-value>WEB-INF/cgi</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<!-- The mapping for the CGI Gateway servlet -->
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/cgi-bin/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
Deploy the app and test... Let us know your results.
--kevan
