Thanks Kevin - you got me thinking….I’ve
got it going J, but I think it was all along!
Being rather new to all this (the linuxbox
was built yesterday)…
The problem was I was accessing the html
file by file:///var/www/html/wp.html when submitted the cgi script
will point to /var/www/html/cgi-bin/mycgi.cgi– this gives the error
message. It makes sense to me now.
If I use http://localhost/wp.html
it works fine, likewise if I access the cgi file with http://localhost/cgi-bin/mycgi.cgi it works
It was rather a good way of making me read the documents for
the last two days, but I do feel a bit of an idiot.
Many thanks to Mark and Kevin for your help, it is much appreciated
Stephen
From: Mark Feather
[mailto:markfeather@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 30 July 2005 01:28
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Kevin
O'Neil
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] cgi
scripts not running
Is your Config file split up into several files, does your
config file call (if thats the correct word to use) other config files from
elsewhere after your personal additions / alterations. If so this
would i guess override all your own work?
Are you altering the correct Config File? Is Apache
reading some other config file and or some other files?
Look closely at the errors:
"/var/www/html/cgi-bin/mycgi.cgi"
It is looking in the html folder because you don't have the
domain or ip before the cgi-bin. yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/mycgi.cgi
I am unsure how to access the cgi-bin from the folder html
without domain unless you have the cgi-bin in the html folder like:
/var/www/html/cgi-bin/myfile.cgi
would work with action="" and even "/cgi-bin...
To access upwards .../cgi-bin/ should work.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, July 29,
2005 7:35 PM
Subject: RE: [users@httpd]
cgi scripts not running
If I have <FORM METHOD=POST
ACTION="" the error is The file
/var/www/html/cgi-bin/mycgi.cgi
cannot be found
If I have <FORM METHOD=POST
ACTION="" the error is The file
/var/www/html/mycgi.cgi
cannot be found
If I have <FORM METHOD=POST
ACTION="" the error is The file /cgi-bin/mycgi.cgi cannot be found
So how do I
get it to look in
/var/www/cgi-bin
I’ve put
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ “/var/www/cgi-bin/” in
the config file, dosen’t this do it?
Thanks
Stephen
