Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit. Accessing that URL works! I think I can handle it from here. Thanks again.
P.S. Sorry for the nomenclature confusion, I'm really a chemist, not a computer programmer. ________________________________ From: Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:37:56 -0500 To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> Conversation: how do I enable CGI scripts in Tomcat 6? Subject: Re: how do I enable CGI scripts in Tomcat 6? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert, On 1/13/2010 9:25 AM, Grossman, Robert B wrote: > <servlet> > <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name> > <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</servlet-class> > <init-param> > <param-name>debug</param-name> > <param-value>1</param-value> > </init-param> > <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> > > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/cgi-bin/*</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > > (4) Our web app is in /home/aceorg/aceorg/DEV-2.2/. It has two > branches, epoch-plugin/ and courseware/. epoch-plugin/web/WEB-INF/ now > contains cgi-bin/, which contains many cgi scripts, including login.cgi. Just to get some nomenclature straight: the term "branch" is meaningless to the servlet specification. If that term has some internal meaning to you, it does not to us. The directory /home/aceorg/DEV-2.2 is more likely the appBase for a <Host> defined in Tomcat's conf/server.xml. That means it's the directory used for auto-deployed WAR files and directory-based webapps. The epoch-plugin and courseware "branches", as you call them, are really independent webapps. You can tell because each one of them has a separate WEB-INF/web.xml file. > Most of our web app requires a login, so we are unable to point our > browser to WEB-INF/cgi-bin/login.cgi directly. If you have an executable file in WEB-INF/cgi-bin/login.cgi, then you should be accessing it using this URL: http://host/epoch-plugin/cgi-bin/login.cgi and not http://host/epoch-plugin/WEB-INF/cgi-bin/login.cgi Note that you configured this explicitly in the CGIServlet (see above) using the url-pattern of "/cgi-bin/*". There's no "WEB-INF" in that path. > However, we do have a public access folder at > epoch-plugin/web/public/, which a Web browser can access at > http://domain/epoch-plugin/public/, so I made a symlink > public/webmo/cgi-bin to point to WEB-INF/cgi-bin. When we point a > browser to > http://domain/epoch-plugin/public/webmo/cgi-bin/login.cgi, we see the > text for WEB-INF/cgi-bin/login.cgi. Your URL path for the CGIServlet is "/cgi-bin/*" not "/public/webmo/cgi-bin/*", so the CGIServlet isn't being invoked. By adding that symlink, you have allowed the DefaultServlet to serve the raw bytes of the .cgi file, so you see the source code of your perl script (or whatever). Try removing the symlink and hitting this URL: http://host/epoch-plugin/cgi-bin/login.cgi What happens? - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktN6NQACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBv7wCgv16UkUZM2edmPV5i9jvFQ6aV o5EAn144Hb9S+ccbTUz7wSfNYkhRnibh =gcZp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
