> From: Grossman, Robert B [mailto:robert.gross...@uky.edu] > Subject: how do I enable CGI scripts in Tomcat 6? > > The descriptions of the CGI enabling process that we have found on > the Web, e.g. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/cgi-howto.html
That's the right one. > and > http://www.wellho.net/solutions/java-running-cgi-scripts-in-apache-tomcat.html > Sadly out of date and seriously broken. Use the real doc. > We already had set <context privileged="true"> in Tomcat's context.xml. That's wrong. First, it's <Context>, not <context> - case matters. Second, you shouldn't be setting this attribute globally, but rather in just the webapps that need it. > We created a WEB-INF/cgi directory in our web app's hierarchy. In > $CATALINA_BASE/conf/web.xml, we uncommented the CGI servlet description > and servlet matching, and we set the cgiPathPrefix to WEB-INF/cgi/ and > the servlet matching pattern to /cgi/*. Please post (via copy and paste) those sections of conf/web.xml so we can see what you actually did. Too often people see what they expect, not what's there. > We downloaded servlets-cgi.renametojar from a Tomcat 5 distribution, Bad move. Where in the Tomcat 6 doc does it say to do that? You just broke your Tomcat 6 installation. > Tomcat 6 did not come with this file. Because it doesn't need it. > Nor, for that matter, can we find a preexisting cgi-bin directory anywhere. Nor should you. That's simply a part of the URL that triggers the CGI servlet, not an actual directory. The script path is specified by the cgiPathPrefix parameter. > when we browse to a CGI script in WEB-INF/cgi/ (we actually access > it through a symlink in a different, publicly accessible directory) Don't muck with symlinks until you've got it working. No point in introducing extra trouble spots until the basics are functional. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
