[Novalug] running cgi-bin scripts locally via apache and browser
Bonnie Dalzell
bdalzell@qis.net
Sat Oct 6 23:37:20 EDT 2007
The mysql tutorial was going very well until I came to the part about
running a script via the browser.
i have apache running with:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache start
the first time I went through the tutorial and did this - before dinner
- the script executed from the Firefox browser.
I shut the computer off and had dinner. When I came back and started it
up again the script does not execute via firefox. instead firefox comes
up with a requestor window offering to download the script to disk or
open it in text editor.
"You have chosen to open random.cgi which is a: CGI script from
/usr/lib/cgi-bin"
here are the permissions for the directory: usr/lib/cgi-bin:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-06 10:33 cgi-bin
and here are the permissions for the files withing /usr/lib/cgi-bin:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1030 2007-10-06 10:33 list2.cgi
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 1030 2007-10-06 10:21 list.cgi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1029 2007-10-06 10:20 list.cgi~
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1011 2007-10-06 10:10 random.cgi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1011 2007-10-06 09:16 random.cgi~
I was hoping to learn how to set up a mysql database to run on my website
but to debug everything locally before activating the mysql service at my
ihp.
i had problems a while back understanding how to do this and sort of gave
up but I thought I would try again.
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