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anti-sleep · Apr 5, 2003, 12:45 AM

First off, I don't know quite what I'm doing, so it's probably a really dumb mistake. But...

I'm trying to install Grey Matter blogging software ( http://noahgrey.com/greysoft/ )on my friends OSX 10.1 server. All it requires is Perl 5 (have that) and the ability to run cgi scripts (not so sure...). I'm not sure what directory will function as a cgi-bin, since there wasn't one already there. I just made one in my Sites folder. So I upload all the files just like the directions say, and when I go to execute the installation script, I get a 'not found' message in the browser. The file is clearly there, I can see it in ftp and ssh. What's going on here?

Thanks for any help that you can provide.

Mithras · Apr 5, 2003, 06:07 AM

Put CGI scripts in /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/

Make sure the file is marked as executable (type chmod a+x /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/scriptname in Terminal)

anti-sleep · Apr 5, 2003, 10:22 AM

Thank you for the reply. One question, though: if the scripts aren't within the sites folder, how do I run them from a browser?

neely · Apr 7, 2003, 10:34 AM

Originally posted by anti-sleep:
Thank you for the reply. One question, though: if the scripts aren't within the sites folder, how do I run them from a browser?

Type http://yourdomainname/cgi-bin/scriptname.cgi into your browser where 'yourdomainname' is your web address and 'scriptname.cgi' is the name of the cgi script you want to run.

Apache by default has only one place from which cgi scripts can be run - from the 'CGI-Executables' folder within the 'global' web directory in /Library/WebServer. If you want individual users to be able to run cgi scripts, you need to specify this in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf (though I don't know how to do that, as I've never tried).

l008com · Apr 13, 2003, 06:18 PM

What I was using perl's, i made it so I could execute CGI's from anywhere. Since there was really no way someone could upload anything anywhere, it wasn't much of a security risk. But perl's still can really be a hassle to get working correctly. The real solution is to switch to PHP's. Besides being way faster, PHPs are a snap to get running, just turn them on in your httpd.conf and thats it, insert php code into your files and change thier names to .php's, and they just run. Their great.