Server Side Includes and CGI

[ajrowland]

OK, I've been pounding my head on this all day. I have a cgi/perl script for an access counter (it's the Simple Counter script by Seth Leonard). I've ascertained that if I go directly to the cgi script through the web browser, it works just dandy. If I try to include it in the web page, I get nothing.

The script can be found at

http://dreamcatchersweb.com/scripts.

The site I'm working on is on an intranet so is not available. The command I'm using to access the ssi is:

<!--#exec cgi=&quot;/cgi-bin/counter.cgi&quot; -->

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Andrew

 

[rjs]

I had a similar problem with a perl script but maybe this will help. Remove the IUSR_ rights to the cgi-bin directory which should prompt you for a login when accessing the page with the script. Login as adminstrator. If the script runs, then it is a rights issue (as it was in my case). Once I knew it was rights, I turned on the file/directory access tracking in 2000 and then checked the logs after running the scripts again. From this I found exactly what rights I had to add to the IUSR_ account to make it work.

Hope this helps.

 

[ajrowland]

rjs,

No, that didn't do it. It seems to load the page without executing the include at all. Puzzling. Thanks.

Andrew