On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Felipe wrote:
> Neven,
> First of all, I'd like to thank you for all the help. I can say I have
> learned a great deal through this experience. To clarify, the choice of
> using tomcat for this was not mine. I am trying to lend a hand to a
> professor of mine. Th
2013/11/20 Felipe :
> Hello,
>
> I am running Manjaro Linux (0.8.7) using the linux 3.4.69 kernel on a Dell
> XPS m1330 laptop. I am trying to run a sample webpage that uses perl and
> cgi to handle a form.
> These are the steps I took:
>
> * wget
> http://mirrors.sonic.net/apache/tomcat/tomcat-8
Neven,
First of all, I'd like to thank you for all the help. I can say I have
learned a great deal through this experience. To clarify, the choice of
using tomcat for this was not mine. I am trying to lend a hand to a
professor of mine. This specific exercise is in his Unix class. For some
reason h
Felipe,
As noted in the web.xml comments, in order to make cgi-servlet working, you
need to package cgi scripts with your web application (e.g. yourapp.war):
"Common Gateway Includes (CGI) processing servlet, which supports execution
of external applications that conform to the CGI spec requireme
Thank you Neven,
So, basically I've tried your suggestion, but I tried it again to see if
anything would change, but I got this error:
*type* Status report
*message*
*/home/luis/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.0-RC5/web/cgi-bin/project.cgi*
*description* *The requested resource is not available.*
Cou
Felipe your form action seem to be wrong. Nothing is listening on port 80
as notwd in your html.
It should be more like http://localhost:8080/...
Depending how that default servlet has been mapped to cgi programs.
Hopefully that will get you going :)
On Nov 20, 2013 3:01 AM, "Felipe" wrote:
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