CGI Wanna Be

[Casey Mac]

Greetings,

First love the site and am going hard core Linux!!

On to business. I am trying to learn how to enable a CGI script that i downloaded. I am using rh7.3 so \var\www\cgi-bin. Im not sure if i have to start a service or do i add a line to httpd.conf. Please help

Thanks in advance

[mychl]

Did you try accessing the cgi script through a browser?

yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi

If it diesn't work, make sure it's executable chmod 755... open httpd.conf and search for cgi, check out every result and read above and below. That should give you some pretty big clues as to what you need to do.

GL

[Casey Mac]

Thanks for your quick responce. What i found is that in RH7.3 the path for the cgi bin is in a different spot that is indicated in the Httpd.conf file that i was playing with. Once i rem out the line that basically said that Cgi-bin could be executed from any where i at least got this error.

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, root@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.


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Apache/1.3.23 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80

I checked to make sure that chmod 755 was inplace and it was. What do you think my problem is?

Casey

[PhatBarren]

Do you have perl installed???

[Casey Mac]

Yes, i believe so. I did a which perl and it came up /usr/bin/perl. My apologies for not really knowing the correct command to find out if its installed.

[JasonC]

Check your web log and dig up the specific errors, that would really help or post the script we can see if it has a problem.

[Casey Mac]

This is what it says

192.168.0.25 - - [22/Jun/2002:08:55:54 -0600] "GET /cgi-bin/birdseye.cgi?program=6 HTTP/1.1" 500 603 "http://192.168.0.11/birdseye.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)"

also this is what i have on the folder

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 19 15:18 cgi-bin
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Jun 19 15:06 html

This is what i have on the folder

-rwxr-xr-x 1 34804 188 7784 Jun 20 19:34 birdseye.cgi

please advise

Casey

Thanks in advance