SuSE 8.1 Professional and CGI Problems

[tbohon]

(Duplicate of post in Linux forum)

I'm having a bit of a problem with my SuSE 8.1 install and running CGI programs (in Perl, of course <g>). Seems that it either can't find the xxx.cgi file or it asks for the program to use - but doesn't recognize /usr/bin/perl when I choose it.

Am wondering if I'm missing something. I've been putting my .html file (which has a form calling the .cgi as it's action) in /srv/

http://www/htdocs/

and addressing it as

http://localhost/

. Meanwhile the actual .cgi program is in the cgi-bin directory (/srv/

http://www/cgi-bin/)

and I've called it with an explicit path (

http://localhost/cgi-bin/xxx.cgi).

Since my system is a one-user, non-networked system I changed permissions on /srv/

http://www to

777 - wouldn't do that if anyone else was able to access the system, of course, but it's just me here.

So - any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Am I mis-addressing things somehow? I can send the two files I have it that will help anyone - didn't want to cut and paste it here unless it's needed.

Thanks in advance.

Tom

 

[PaulTEG]

Try addressing the action as &quot;/cgi-bin/myscript.pl&quot; and see if that helps.

Can you ping localhost on your machine?

HTH Paul