CGI problems

Jon Martin <[email protected]> Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:18:57 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.fnord
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hello there,

First let me say that I'm excited about this software.  I'm building a 
firewall/router/access point out of an old Toshiba Satellite T2130.  The 
laptop has 486 proc and only 24Meg of memory, so resources are a big 
issue.  I like the small footprint of fnord because it helps me save 
some memory, which is already low.  The trouble is that I'm having 
problems with CGIs on fnord 1.9.  I'm running a Debian unstable with the 
vanilla 2.4.27 kernel.

Linux debian 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Thu Jan 20 10:55:08 JST 2005 i486 GNU/Linux

I've compiled fnord after defining the CGI var in httpd.c

/* uncomment the following line to enable support for CGI */
#define CGI

but each time I call a CGI I get the "Gateway Broken or Unavailable." 
error, which I understand from looking at the source is a http 502 error.

Here is my run script in /etc/fnord

#!/bin/sh
cd /webroot
exec tcpserver -l 0 192.168.60.1 80 fnord-cgi

I'm using the -cgi binary even though I have not see that on any of the 
how-tos for fnord.  I'm assuming this is right because while using the 
fnord the CGIs don't seem to be treated at all (script text in the 
browser). 

This is the contents of my env directory:

# ls -l
total 2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2 2005-03-31 18:55 COLF_COMBINED
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 8 2005-03-31 18:55 PROTOURL
debian:/etc/fnord/env# cat *
1
http://

And here is my little hello world script (Which runs on my Apache server):

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print "<html>Hello...</html>\n";

btw.  Is there anyway to search the fnord mailing list archives?


thanks,
Jon Martin
Corcelles, Switzerland