Ted Byers wrote: > Mark, > > OK, Thanks. But the information provided isn't quite complete. > > I had done everything the documentation you point to said, and kept getting > internal server errors until I edited (on the suggestion of a colleague) > context.xml and changed <Context> to <Context privileged="true">
This is in the 6.0.18 docs but for some reason isn't in the version on tomcat.a.o. I'll look into that and get the on-line docs updated. > The documentation you point to is incomplete unless something else was > causing server errors just at the time I was trying to use my cgi script. > The file context.xml also needs to be edited (as I describe above), and none > of the documentation you mention says anything about that. See above - it looks like the 6.0.18 docs weren't uploaded correctly. > It is great if this is fixed in 6.0.18, but the online documentation ought > to say what to do for old versions like 6.0.16 or 6.0.17. The on-line docs should always be for the current stable release. We usually note where something has changed since a previous release (eg a new default etc) but in this case nothing has changed. The errors were in the docs. > I looked at your change log and found only one bug fix related to CGI, and > it refers to an NPE. How that is related to the problem I was facing isn't > clear to me. You needed to look a little further. The web.xml fix was in 6.0.17 (never released). > Anyway, I still have some digging to do since, although <Context > privileged="true"> proved sufficient, along with the provided instructions, > to get my cgi scripts working, I need to find out what other implications it > has. Context.xml says it is loaded for each web application, and that is > troubling since none of my other applications need it. It has always seemed > best to me to have programs run with the minimum permissions necessary for > them to work, but I haven't found as yet how or where I could set privileged > for one application only. Again, the docs are your friend. You need a context.xml specifically for your app. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
