CGI-script problem on Apache2

jkt2000 · 01-26-2005, 12:23 AM

Hi

I’m trying to setup a simple CGI script on my newly installed Apache2 server.

t1.cgi:
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#!/bin/sh
echo Content-type: text/html
echo
echo Hello World

index.html:
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<HTML>
<BODY>
start
<FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/t1.cgi" METHOD="POST">
stop
</BODY>
</HTML>

My cgi-script (t1.cgi) is placed in /var/www/cgi-bin/

I added “ScriptAlias /cgi/bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/” to the Apache conf file.

Whenever I type http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/t1.cgi in my browser, I get the expected output:

Hello World

Whenever I type http://127.0.0.1/index.html in my browser, I only get :

start
stop

It seems that the cgi-script never gets invoked.

I’m using Mandrake 10.1 and Apache2-2.0.50.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks
Jones

bathory · 01-26-2005, 02:03 AM

Don't you have to put a button or something inseide the <form> to execute the cgi.
Try this inside index.html:

Code:

<form action=.....>
<input type="submit" value="run">
</form>

jkt2000 · 01-28-2005, 03:13 AM

Hi Bathory,

Thanks for your suggestion. It works fine - I'm able invoke the cgi-script that way.

But my goal is to increment a counter each time my homepage has a hit so the cgi-script would have to be invoked automatically.

I have been playing around in the meantime. Even the exec command



doesn't seem to work.

Do I need particular modules loaded by Apache to run cgi-scripts ? Or maybe something to do with permissions....

Thanks
Jones

bathory · 01-28-2005, 04:38 AM

If you want to this you need to use SSI (server side includes). Take a look at you apache httpd.conf to see what you need to change in order to achieve this.
Then use something like the following in your .shtml page:

Code:

<!--#include file="path/to/t1.cgi" -->

Regards