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Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X: Part 2 | |
| Subject: | My cgi's don't work! | |
| Date: | 2002-01-31 14:37:30 | |
| From: | morbus | |
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Response to: My cgi's don't work!
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That could be a ton of things, none of which is related to your Apache setup, or your CGI configuration. This filename.cgi script could have incorrect newline encoding, could not output the proper Content-type header, could have invalid syntax, or any of a number of other things.
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My cgi's don't work!
2002-01-31 17:20:02 haymaker [View]
I downloaded it from one of those websites that have free cgi scripts for download. I just wanted to see if my cgi-bin was working correctly. The test-cgi works okay, but so far, nothing that I put in there with a .cgi or .pl works. Which brings up another question - why doesn't the test-cgi have a file extension? Should I be taking the file extensions off the other files? -
My cgi's don't work!
2002-05-29 13:04:11 emc^2 [View]
I have the same msg and I can't fix it. Could you tell me how you did?
thx!
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My cgi's don't work!
2002-02-01 07:08:58 Morbus Iff |
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haymaker, your best bet is to start looking around for CGI FAQs, and "common things that can go wrong". Your Apache CGI configuration is working correctly, since the test-cgi runs correctly. In this case, file extensions don't matter. You're probably running into one of the problems I described in my previous post.
A quick way to test if a script has the right line encoding, for example, is to open the script up in the terminal, and see what you see. If you do:
less filename.cgi
And see everything on one line, or else a lot of ^M's all over the place, then you've got incorrect line feeds that will need to be converted to Unix ones. -
My cgi's don't work!
2002-02-01 09:12:24 haymaker [View]
Thnaks for your help. And thanks for the series! This is the best OS X related information I've found!
