Re: Help - failure with CGI programs

Hallo!

The response so far has been a deafening
silence.

Looking back on the list I see a number of
questions from people who could not get
cgi programs to work under tux, but I can
find no success stories.

Has anybody on this list had any success in
getting cgi-bin programs to run under tux?

Please, anybody?

Ingo? Michael?

sadly,

e

einstein wrote:

> Hello All -
>
> I have been very impressed with the speed of tux, and wanted
> to explore it's suitability for a number of things.
>
> The problem -
>
> I have tux running on a Red Hat 8.0 system, with all updates.
> Requests for static docs in the document root work fine, but
> requests for a cgi program fail miserably.
>
> Here's the latest configuration I've tried:
>
> Trying to narrow the problem, I statically compiled a c program
> which prints "hello, tux!".
>
> The compiled program, "test.cgi", is in /var/www/html/cgi-bin:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       447081 Oct 31 16:08 test.cgi
>
> a zero length file with the same name is in /var/www/html:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Oct 31 16:22 test.cgi
>
> The doc root and cgi root are the same:
>
> net.tux.documentroot = /var/www/html/
> net.tux.cgiroot = /var/www/html/
>
> The tux.mim.types file entry says execute progs with cgi suffix:
>
> TUX/CGI                         cgi pl
>
> When I request http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi, this error appears
> in syslog:
>
> TUX: CGI chroot returned -2, /proc/sys/net/tux/cgiroot is probably set 
> up incorrectly! Aborting CGI execution.
>
> For the life of me I can not work out what tux wants!
>
> Can someone point out the error of my ways?
>
> anxiously,
>
> e
>
>
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