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i found a web face gui to be able to change the password on samba. i am running apache on my server. i configured it and installed it but i am not sure how to actually get the web page to come up. i dont know what file i have to put where to get it to start. if anybody has used this before please help me get it started thanks. i got the source code from:
Well according to the README and such, it appears it should place the files in your root directory for you webserver. Have you tried looking there to see if it placed any files you haven't placed there yourself?
it placed a file called changepassword.cgi, executable file in my /var/www/cgi-bin directory. other then that i am new to this and i really dont know where to look to see if it placed anything in my root directory for my webserver. i believe i need to write an html page to get this working but i really dont know. thanks for your help.
Yeah, I would search your directory root in your webserver. Also see about reading the file in your cgi-bin and see if it references to any html or other files that it might have placed on your system.
My guess it might be called changepassword.html by default.
when i look in my /var/www directory i only have the following directories:
cgi-bin, error, html, icons
i dont have anything else under that directory. it created the executable file but no html document. i am a little lost here. i would love to have this up and running for the folks here but i cant seem to get it to work.
What about in your html directory? If not there, I'd see about contacting the developer of it, maybe ask them since nothing is mentioned in their docs or at least state that if it was suppose to go into the default directory, why it didn't get compiled there.
You could try to recompile and specify the location?
i did email the person who wrote this. like i said it doesnt create any documents that will let me open the web page. it is pretty weird. i created my own script to see if cgi was working with apache and it is on my machine. it is almost like one file is missing. when he gets back to me i will let you know what he says. if you come up with somethiing before that please post. thanks.
i got it to work. i had to cp the changepassword.cgi file and rename it changepassword.pl, the changepassword.cgi file is located in /var/www/cgi-bin - i had to copy it and rename it and place it in the same directory
then i had to run the following command to give it the proper permissions:
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