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/v8.0.0-RC5/bin/apache-tomcat-8.0.0-RC5.tar.gz * tar xvzf apache-tomcat-8.0.0-RC5.tar.gz * mkdir ~/tomcat * sudo mv apache-tomcat-8.0.0-RC5 ~/tomcat * sudo vi ~/.bashrc * append export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk * append export CATALINA_HOME=~/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.0-RC5 * run $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh I was able to pull up the tomcat control panel, I then edited the web.xml file. I uncommented the cgi servlet block as well as the cgi-servlet mapping block. I also changed path prefix: <init-param> <param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name> <param-value>WEB-INF/cgi-bin/*</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup> </servlet> as well as created a user and password in the tomcat-users.xml, so i could use the manager GUI. I proceeded to create a directory (web) in my home folder and created a sub-directory (cgi-bin). I have 3 files that make up the web page. the html file is as follows: GNU nano 2.2.6 File: ProjectAnalysis.html <!- Program Name: projest.html -> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Project Analysis</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY> <H2>Average Profit per Project Calculation</H2> <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION=" http://localhost/home/luis/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.0-RC5/web/cgi-bin/projest.cgi "> Total cost of projects last year? <INPUT TYPE=text NAME=projcost SIZE=10> Number of Projects? <INPUT TYPE=text NAME=projects SIZE=10> Project revenue received? <INPUT TYPE=text NAME=revenue SIZE=10> <HR><INPUT TYPE=submit NAME=submit VALUE=Submit> <INPUT TYPE=reset NAME=reset VALUE="Start over"> </FORM> </BODY> </HTML> the .cgi file is as follows: #!/usr/bin/perl # Program name: projest.cgi require "subparseform.lib"; &Parse_Form; $projcost = $formdata{'projcost'}; $projects = $formdata{'projects'}; $revenue = $formdata{'revenue'}; $average = $projcost / $projects; $average = sprintf("%.2f", $average); $grossprofit = $revenue - $projcost; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "<P>Project Cost Last Year was $projcost dollars."; print "<P>We completed $projects projects during the year. That works out to an average of $average cost per project."; print "<P>Our annual Project Revenue was $revenue dollars. We made a gross profit of $grossprofit dollars"; the subparse.lib file: GNU nano 2.2.6 File: subparseform.lib sub Parse_Form { if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'GET') { @pairs = split(/&/, $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}); } elsif ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST') { read (STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}); @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer); if ($ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}) { @getpairs =split(/&/, $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}); push(@pairs,@getpairs); } } else { print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "<P>Use Post or Get"; } foreach $pair (@pairs) { ($key, $value) = split (/=/, $pair); $key =~ tr/+/ /; $key =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg; $value =~ tr/+/ /; $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg; $value =~s/<!--(.|\n)*-->//g; if ($formdata{$key}) { $formdata{$key} .= ", $value"; } else { $formdata{$key} = $value; } } } 1; I have manually open the html file from firefox's menu, and I when I submit data into the farm, I get an unable to connect to server error. I'm not sure where to go from here, I believe the folder(s) for the web page should be in the tomcat/apache... folder , I'm just not sure where. I would appreciate any help on this specific problem. Thanks in advance
