Re: CGIDEV Question

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Post the scriptalias directive.  Maybe it's set up so you
don't need the .pgm at the end of the program name.

But, if you can't even telnet to port 80, I'd question if
the HTTP server is running or set up properly.

On Mon, 15 May 2006 10:05:35 -0500
 "Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The ScriptAlias directive was already there, fyi, but
> that was a great idea
> to check.
> 
> I tried to open a telnet session as you suggested, but I
> get a "Connecting
> to mysystem...Could not open connection to the host, on
> port 80: Connect
> failed"  error message.   I am able to open up a
> non-cgidev2 CGI program
> (one I wrote from scratch) but just not the ones that
> used to work on the
> old system. To my knowledge, these are the exact same
> programs as they were
> on the old system. 
> 
> Can you suggest anything I might check to make the telnet
> mysystem.com 80
> work as you suggested?  That sounds like a great lead to
> follow if I can
> only make it work.
> 
> Thanks!    
> 
> Shannon O'Donnell
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> > On the new system, when I attempt to open one of the
> /cgi-bin/MYPGM.PGM 's
> > my browser does not know what to do with it and tries
> to save it to my
> hard
> > drive instead of opening it.  It's like it must be
> missing the
> content-type
> > value in the HTML.
> 
> My first guess would be that you're missing the
> ScriptAlias directive (or 
> EXEC on the orignal server) so the web server is tryign
> to download the 
> the program to your PC instead of running the program to
> get output.
> 
> Might be worth checking it out.
> 
> The content-type being the problem seems unlikely. If
> content-type is 
> missing, I'd expect the server to return an error, not
> open up a download 
> window!  The symptom would fit it giving the WRONG
> content-type, but that 
> seems unlikely if you haven't changed the programs.  If
> you want to see 
> exactly what content-type and other data is returned, you
> can use TELNET 
> to run the HTTP session manually.  Here's how:
> 
> a) Open up a "run" prompt on your PC (Start -> Run)
> 
> b) Type "telnet newsystem.example.com 80"  (to connect to
> port 80 on the 
> new system.... change the domain name as appropriate)
> 
> c) In the TELNET session type:
> 
>      GET /cgi-bin/MYPGM.PGM<enter>
>      Host: newsystem.example.com<enter>
>      <enter>
> 
> d) The server should respond with the document for
> download, including the 
> content-type.  If the content-type is wrong or missing,
> then it could be 
> that the CGI programs aren't setting it correctly.
> 
> 
> > Now, it's been a long time since I played around with
> CGIDEV2, but it
> seems
> > to me that I remember you had to have some environment
> things set up for
> it,
> > or maybe a subsystem running for it?,  something in the
> background. Maybe
> it
> > was just as simple as porting the CGIDEV2 service
> programs?
> 
> You CAN set up a separate server instance for CGIDEV2,
> but it's not 
> necessary and I've always thought it was a bad idea since
> it makes 
> firewall management much more difficult, and requires
> extra resources from 
> your system.
> 
> A lot of people do this for testing.  That way, they can
> take down the 
> CGIDEV2 instance, and change it's parameters, and
> experiment without 
> affecting the main server.
> 
> But, it's certainly not a requirement.
> 
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