Having a cgi time
Ok I have almost figured out cgi and managed to get a few scripts working. I am curently being hosted by freeola.com and they have not got a scoob about cgi so they refuse to give me any support on it. I have been told my cgi directory should be called cgi-shl but I must refer to it as cgi-bin in the html documents. I have used a few scripts downloaded from bignose bird.com and put the cgi file in the cgi-shl directory using ascii and chmodding them to 755. I have then put the html file pointing to them in my htdocs folder (which is in the same folder as my cgi-shl) I tried using perdiver to find my absolute path and it gave me something totally differant from what freeola told me. Thing is I keep getting this error when trying to run the scripts. It finds the htm file in my htdocs folder then when it refers to the cgi-shl folder I get an error page that says" internal server error" What does this mean?
my html can be located at http://www.noggy.net/testsite/source/links.htm
and the cgi can be loacted at: http://www.noggy.net/cgi-bin/links.cgi
any help would be appreciated
~Vy~
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vy22 posted this at 14:17 — 17th May 2000.
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Oh before I forget: The html file has been changed to <form method=GET action="http://www.noggy.net/testsite/source/links/links.cgi">
However the original configuration was: <form method=GET action="http://www.noggy.net/cgi-bin/links.cgi">
I just changed it to see if I could get cgi working outside the cgi-shl directory but I can't. Freeola said it has to be in the cgi-shl to work.
~Vy~
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To spam or not to spam!
That is the question.
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Orpheus posted this at 21:11 — 17th May 2000.
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it means something is wrong
try to execute the script in the shell and see what errors you get.
vy22 posted this at 10:02 — 18th May 2000.
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What do you mean executing it in the shell?
Do you mean I type in http://www.noggy.net/cgi-bin/links.cgi and see what happens? I tried that and it just says internal server error.
~Vy~
hcshim posted this at 21:36 — 18th May 2000.
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Executing in shell means that you first log into your account using telnet. Then execute the script in the command line.
Its something like this:
perl /path/to/script -w
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vy22 posted this at 08:34 — 19th May 2000.
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Sorry now I am totally lost!
how does one go about logging into an account with telnet? what is the point of executing my shell? Man you got me confused here. I am a total newbie with cgi so take it easy on me please!
~Vy~
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