SuSE Pro 8.1 and CGI Programs

[tbohon]

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

 

[flugh]

What's the exact error? At the top of the cgi script, there's probably a line similar to this:
#!/usr/bin/perl

Does it reflect the correct path to the perl binary? Check out the output of 'which perl', it'll show you if it finds an executable file named perl anywhere in your $PATH.

Are you sure the webserver is properly setup? With a ScriptAlias for the cgi-bin directory and all? --
JR