This won't work right in CGI for a few reasons; first, CGI has no keyboard input and can't read a number from the user. Second, you usually can't - and definitely shouldn't - write to the current folder in a CGI script.
Third, you never, ever want a CGI script to be running self-generated code.
How to run it from CGI also depends on your web server. What is your CGI folder?
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A CGI script can't ask for input, it has to receive it in the first place, i.e. given by an HTML page web form. If it doesn't receive the input it wants, it should print a warning and quit.
Hitting submit on this webpage will cause it to load a URL like http://mysite/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi?somevalue1=asdf&somevalue2=qwerty . The method="get" is important, since POST requests work differently.
The entire string somevalue1=asdf&somevalue2=qwerty will be found in QUERY_STRING which you can process as you please. I often do something like:
...which will leave $1 as "somevalue1", $2 as "asdf", $3 as "somevalue2", and $4 as "qwerty". set -- is a special, ancient syntax which sets the shell's $1 $2 ... argument variables, and IFS is a special variable which controls what characters the shell splits on - usually spaces, but here we use it to split the CGI string on ampersands and equals.
You can process that in a loop like
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Hello,
I want to run this script on my CentOS 6 via browser :
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#!/bin/sh
echo Username?
read MY_NAME
echo Provisional file name?
read MY_FILE
echo File NAME you want to save?
read MY_FILE2... (16 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I want to kill process through the web, so I create html page with single bottom that run kill command in shell script with CGI.
Here is html code:
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Hi
I am Run Perl CGI Script. In which i am running SCP Command. But I want that command to be run into background and exit the script. But Still Web page waiting for Finish the script.
I m doing like :
system ("scp -r machinename:/path/to/file/for/copy/ /path/for/ destination/directory/ &");... (3 Replies)
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I have interesting problem.
https:/host/some/x.cgi
- this script has run twice when I call this url
But
http:/host/some/x.cgi
work fine, only once.
Output is text/plain.
If I change output format to the Content-type text/html,
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Hi guys,
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All,
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/var/www/
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Hi,
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Hi,
My server is set up so that all cgi scripts are run as user nobody, instead of the user's username.
Now I know you can use cgi-wrappers, but someone please give me detailed information, on how to make ALL scripts run on the server to by default, run as the user? And not to run as user... (1 Reply)