[Xitami] Problems enabling CGI

Edward Willliams xitami@lists.xitami.org
Fri, 11 Jan 2002 18:44:49 -0500


Does it look like this in the setup???

Main HTML directory:     webpages
Main CGI directory:     scripts
CGI URLs start with:  /scripts

And is the scripts forder under the Xitami folder?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Paton" <neilpaton@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 3:54 PM
Subject: FW: [Xitami] Problems enabling CGI


> Yes, i've changed the relavent values to /scripts/, in both values for CGI
> folders, but it still handles the same. This is really puzzling.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org
> [mailto:xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org]On Behalf Of Ewen McNeill
> Sent: 11 January 2002 12:13
> To: xitami@lists.xitami.org
> Subject: Re: [Xitami] Problems enabling CGI
>
>
> In message <KGENLHHFNMHIJJDCIMGIOEFOCAAA.neilpaton@blueyonder.co.uk>,
"Neil
> Paton" writes:
> >I've installed Perl on my system, and I can successfully execute a perl
> >program through dos, using the PERL file.pl command. So I know Perl
> works...
> >Now when I access the perl file through my browser, which is
> >http://127.0.0.1/scripts/index.pl, I simple get a file download box
appear,
> >which appears to show that CGI is not enabled. Can anyone help me?
>
> Have you configured Xitami to think that "/scripts/" indicates your
> cgi-bin directory?  If not, then it'll never try to run the program,
> and just send it to the browser.
>
> Ewen
>
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