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cgi-bin will not execute perl program
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| Whitsey 2007-06-13, 7:55 am |
| I am trying to execute the printenv perl script in the cgi-bin
directory and it is printing the code instead of executing the
script. Normally this is prety basic stuff setting this up however I
just can't get it to work. I have gone through the Apache
documentation and performed everything to the letter and the feedback
there is if it still doesn't work, do it again... There are only so
many times you can do the exact same thing...
I can run the script from the command line as the httpd user so Perl
is installed and the script works fine.
Perl = /usr/bin/perl
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/apache2.0.54/bindist/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/usr/local/apache2.0.54/bindist/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
(NOTE: I tried adding a forward slash to the end of the Directory
value but to no effect)
[conf]# cat ../cgi-bin/printenv
#!/usr/bin/perl
##
## printenv -- demo CGI program which just prints its environment
##
print "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\n\n";
foreach $var (sort(keys(%ENV))) {
$val = $ENV{$var};
$val =~ s|\n|\\n|g;
$val =~ s|"|\\"|g;
print "${var}=\"${val}\"\n";
}
I must be missing something but I can't for the life of me figure out
what it is???
Any help - please?
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| Mumia W. 2007-06-13, 7:55 am |
| On 06/12/2007 09:38 PM, whitsey wrote:
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> <Directory "/usr/local/apache2.0.54/bindist/cgi-bin">
> AllowOverride None
> Options None
You need "Options ExecCGI" or (more probably) "Options +ExecCGI"
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| Whitsey 2007-06-14, 7:55 am |
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Mumia W. wrote:
> On 06/12/2007 09:38 PM, whitsey wrote:
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> You need "Options ExecCGI" or (more probably) "Options +ExecCGI"
The Apache/Tomcat documentation states that the "ScriptAlias"
directive automatically assigns the alias as a cgi-bin, therefore all
files within this directory are by default assigned as files to be
executed.
I did add this however is made no difference...
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| Mumia W. 2007-06-14, 9:55 pm |
| On 06/14/2007 02:24 AM, whitsey wrote:
> Mumia W. wrote:
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> The Apache/Tomcat documentation states that the "ScriptAlias"
> directive automatically assigns the alias as a cgi-bin, therefore all
> files within this directory are by default assigned as files to be
> executed.
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> I did add this however is made no difference...
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You're right. Your configuration code (without +ExecCGI) worked on my
system (Apache2, Debian 3.1 i386), so I can't say why it doesn't work
for you.
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| Mike Williams 2007-06-14, 9:55 pm |
| On 6/14/07, Mumia W. <mumia.w.18.spam+nospam@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 06/14/2007 02:24 AM, whitsey wrote:
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> You're right. Your configuration code (without +ExecCGI) worked on my
> system (Apache2, Debian 3.1 i386), so I can't say why it doesn't work
> for you.
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Interesting, I've been putting ExecCGI into options for years, thought
it was required.
Did some tinkering, commented out that option and Add-Handler which I
also thought was required and my cgi code still worked.
#Options ExecCGI
#AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
Then I found that if I commented out this line:
LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
My cgi code no longer worked, it just displayed the source of my perl
code in the browser window.
Do you have a load module for mod_cgi in your httpd.conf file?
BTW - this was with Apache/2.2.4 on fedora 6.
Mike
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| Whitsey 2007-06-21, 7:55 am |
| On Jun 15, 6:20 am, drumm...@gmail.com (Mike Williams) wrote:
> On 6/14/07, Mumia W. <mumia.w.18.spam+nos...@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> Interesting, I've been putting ExecCGI into options for years, thought
> it was required.
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> Did some tinkering, commented out that option and Add-Handler which I
> also thought was required and my cgi code still worked.
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> #Options ExecCGI
> #AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
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> Then I found that if I commented out this line:
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> LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
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> My cgi code no longer worked, it just displayed the source of my perl
> code in the browser window.
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> Do you have a load module for mod_cgi in your httpd.conf file?
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> BTW - this was with Apache/2.2.4 on fedora 6.
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That is it!!! I can't beleive I didn't even check that. Assumed it
was a given that it would be there...
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