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Old 04-28-2005
Question Running cgi
I am learning about cgi and having lots of trouble. If I am on a server cs-srv2.(schoolname).edu and I want to run cgi script what would I need to do? By the way, I see [myusername@cs-srv2 myusername]$ on the command line when my server opens , if that makes a difference. I created a cgi-bin directory and put it in there. The script looks like:

Code:
#!/bin/csh
#Name: env.cgi
#Author: David Tansley
#Description: A script to display the envirinment variables.

echo "Content-type: text/html"
echo ""
echo "<HTML><PRE>"
echo "CGI test environments"
echo "SERVER_SOFTWARE = $SERVER_SOFTWARE"
echo "SERVER_NAME = $SERVER_NAME"
echo "GATEWAY_INTERFACE = $ GATEWAY_INTERFACE"
echo "SERVER_PROTOCOL = $SERVER_PROTOCOL"
echo "SERVER_PORT = $SERVER_PORT"
echo "REQUEST_METHOD = $REQUEST_METHOD"
echo "HTTP_ACCEPT = $HTTP_ACCEPT"
echo "PATH_INFO = $PATH_INFO"
echo "PATH_TRANSLATED = $PATH_TRANSLATED"
echo "QUERY_STRING = $QUERY_STRING"
echo "SCRIPT_NAME = $SCRIPT_NAME"
echo "REMOTE_HOST = $REMOTE_HOST"
echo "REMOTE_ADDR = $REMOTE_ADDR"
echo "REMOTE_USER = $REMOTE_USER"
echo "AUTH_TYPE = $AUTH_TYPE"
echo "CONTENT_TYPE = $CONTENT_TYPE"
echo "</PRE></HTML>"

# 2  
Old 04-29-2005
Roughly the set of things you should try:

(1) Ask your system administrator about whether you are allowed to run CGI scripts written in csh, or if you are allowed to run CGI scripts at all.
(2) Ask your system administrator where to put your CGI scripts. Every system is configured to place these files differently. On many servers, this is to place all the files in a public_html directory in your home directory, and CGIs are only allowed in a cgi-bin directory inside public_html.
(3) Give an executable chmod, e.g. 755, or do whatever is instructed by the system administrator with respect to site-specific configurations.

I think you need to ask your system administrator for most of these as only (s)he will know the configuration.
# 3  
Old 04-30-2005
I cant get into contact with him. He emailed me the cgi file so I know we can run them. He just never let ne know where to put them. I created the cgi-bin in the public_html directory and tried to see it with "cs-srv2.universityname.edu/home/myusername/public_html/cgi-bin/env.cgi" but it doesnt work. Am I referencing it correctly?
Last edited by CSGUY; 04-30-2005 at 03:45 PM.. Reason: Used unwanted info
# 4  
Old 04-30-2005
Maybe you try:

cs-srv2.universityname.edu/~myusername/cgi-bin/env.cgi

But after all, the exact URL to filesystem path mapping is really only known by the system administrator. A default Apache installation will be something similar to above, but not if he has changed the configuration.

I suppose many university CS depts will post the details of how to use their computing resources (including setting up CGI-BIN, if this is provided), possibly in your intranet or on the Web site of the department. Possibly he did not tell you because it has already been written somewhere in those pages.
 
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