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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Mojo on 13 April 2002, 16:31

Title: Ahh! Webservers CGI
Post by: Mojo on 13 April 2002, 16:31

Okay only people who know CGI/Perl/WebDev please:

Okey dokes - im not sure if this is a host problem or what but:

Counter: www.switch7.net/cgi/bin/counter.cgi (http://www.switch7.net/cgi/bin/counter.cgi) 755

Works fine when directly called but:  When included in SSI with:

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counter.cgi"-->

on www.switch7.net/index.shtml (http://www.switch7.net/index.shtml) - It doesnt work?

Instead of the counted number - I get [error processing directive]

Whats the friggin problem?

I forgot to mention - the server is Apache 1.3.something, Perl5, FreeBSD

[ April 13, 2002: Message edited by: Mojo ]

[ April 13, 2002: Message edited by: Mojo ]

Title: Ahh! Webservers CGI
Post by: voidmain on 13 April 2002, 20:14

Do you have SSI turned on in Apache? Can you run other Server Side included programs? See:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html#configuringyourservertopermitssi (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html#configuringyourservertopermitssi)

And I believe what you actually want in your index.shtml is:

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/counter.cgi" -->

See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html#includingtheresultsofacgiprogram (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html#includingtheresultsofacgiprogram)

[ April 13, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]