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Article:		Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X: Part 2
Subject:		My cgi's don't work!
Date:		2002-01-31 17:20:02
From:		haymaker
Response to: My cgi's don't work!
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?

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• 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!
  Emc^2

• My cgi's don't work!
  2002-02-01 07:08:58  Morbus Iff | [View]
  
  
  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!