Topic: ibays and cgi

[Fred]

Hi all !

I'm on  the e-smith 4.0x server (dedicated,no dhcp) and the ibays call within the web or intranet is working fine ...w3.xxxx.org/ibays/
The only thing a get from a call to cgi script is the friendly 404 error...
I've look in srm.conf and found the good alias to script (name of ibays/cgi-bin/)
and I still can't access it even with full access,even try a working script of my primary web...(this is not a chmod error...) and still doooooops 404 ...

Need help !
ThanX

[Erin Minogue]

Hi Fred.  Well you found a bug.  Below is a segment from a previous posting that my college wrote to temporarily fix the problem until the next release.

"  This is a result of a bug in the e-smith software that we are looking into right now. The bug will only affect clients using DHCP to obtain an IP for the external interface. For a quick workaround, follow these steps:

  1) find out what the assigned IP address is. To do this, run the commandifconfig (interface configuration) on the e-smith server and gateway. You should be able to determine which interface is external and what it's IP addyis.

  2) Reconfigure the e-smith server and gateway to use this IP as a static IP address.

  You will now be able to access you i-bays from the outside world. I am assuming for the moment you are using the server and gateway in dedicated mode. I realise this isn't the best fix, just a temporary workaround.

  Some cable-modem access providers require that you must use DHCP. If this is your case, set the e-smith server and gateway back to using DHCP - more than likely will be assigned the same IP and your i-bays should work.

  As soon as we fix the problem we'll post it on the developers mailing list. Thanks for pointing this out! "


I hope this help you Fred.  
Erin.

[Erin Minogue]

After reading the part about dedicated/no dhcp (sorry I missed that), could you give me a litte more info?   I am not entirely when you get this error.  Sorry about that....

Erin

[Fred]

I can access an ibay from my local network/web,
but can't execute CGI scripts in it !

I've tried a little script that work in the primary and put in the root
of an ibay and still not working (error 404)...

So:
-I checked the rights to user (e-smith manager) put FULL ACCESS !
-I checked the mod (755) and it's OK...
-I checked the path of the URL and it's OK...
-I ckecked the srm.conf anf the alias is there...
-I checked the error_log; the error is SCRIPT NOT FOUND or UNABLE TO STAT

Still not working and i'm now out of ideas

Thanks for good will !

[Erin Minogue]

Check out www.e-smith.org.   There are some hints on customizing your e-smith installation.  Hopefully this will help.

[pcc]

i've got the same problem.  cgi's work in the primary, but don't execute properly in an ibay.  error 500, Internal Server Error.

i've done exactly everything the same in ..primary/cgi-bin as i did in ..ibay/cgi-bin
yet, does not perform as expected.

i'm using 3.1, no mods.  dedicated access.

would it help if i allow cgi's to execute within any folder?  what are the ramifications?

fred, have you got your's to work?  any advice much appreciated

thanks

phil