Topic: cgi-scripts

[Andre Bos]

With the primary website, i try to use a forum script. Namely from beholder. I am having lot's of trouble figuring out the chmod's and the ownership rights...

In short, it will just not work....

Are their any special things with the cgi-bin of e-smith that i should be aware of? I am using the latest beta version of e-smith,.

Andre

[Alex Henriksen]

I have try over 20 Perl & CGI script, i can't get no one to work..!!!
This Topic have been on this board many times..

So, Linux/RH SuperUsers, HELP US with this problem, Please..!!

I need a small counter to my Site...

[Brian]

Hey guys, I'm very interested in getting this resolved too. What versions are you using? What editors are you using to create the scripts?

brian

[Doug P.]

I'm not a Linux or CGI "SuperUser", but try these articals (I just found them today).

Learning CGI for Apache Part 1
http://www.geeks404.com/programming/articles/prog.061500.cgiapache1.php

Learning CGI for Apache Part 2
http://www.geeks404.com/programming/articles/prog.062100.cgiapache2.php

Uploading CGI's
http://www.geeks404.com/programming/articles/prog.052300.uploading_cgi.php

There is a counter program and many others at:
http://www.kastle.net/products

And more tutorials 'n stuff at:
http://www.useforesite.com/tutorials.shtml


Hope this helps a little!!

Doug P.

[Tim Litwiller]

if you are needing the script to work for the main site, not an ibay, put the script in /home/e-smith/files/primary/cgi-bin
then do a chmod a+x on them, you will get to them from
http://my.e-smith.box/cgi-bin/myscript

in an ibay put them in the proper cgi-bin for that ibay
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/myibay/cgi-bin
and address them from that ibay
http://my.e-smith.box/myibay/cgi-bin/myscript

[Alex Henriksen]

Tim Litwiller wrote:

> if you are needing the script to work for the main site, not an
> ibay, put the script in /home/e-smith/files/primary/cgi-bin
> then do a chmod a+x on them, you will get to them from
> http://my.e-smith.box/cgi-bin/myscript

Just try it, does not work here.???

[Brian]

The basic steps should be just to simply move the desired script into your cgi-bin and then chmod 755 "script-name". One problem I had was with how I created the script in the first place. I created it in notepad and then dragged the script into the primary cgi-bin from windows filesharing. Then I went into the server itself and changed the permissions as I stated above. But I still had problems. To make it work I had to change the file format of the script because it was still in DOS format rather than unix. To do this I used the vi editor in the e-smith server. There might be easier ways to do this but this how I did it. For vi novices, here are some steps, but you might want to research an easier method: commands are in quotes.
0) go into the directory containing the script
1) type "vi script-name"
2) now press the escape key and then ":" (yes...very odd)
3) now type "set fileformat=unix"
4) repeat step 2
5) type "wq!" and hit enter and you should have left the editor

I hope this is relevant.

good luck

brian

[Mike J]

Brian - tried your solution using vi to set the fileformat, and voila! it worked.

Thank you, you just ended a couple hours of fruitless head banging!