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["Anthony Albert" <albert AT polaris.umpi.maine.edu>]

On 11 Mar 2005 at 13:33, Ian Scott wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have been looking at the httpd in BL3.
>
>Has anyone else played with this?
>
>According to the docs in the httpd.c source code in busybox (the only place
>I could find any docs on the web!), it should do cgi if the path contains
>cgi-bin.  I cannot get this to work, however (it just wants to download the
>source file!)
>
>Anyone else had any success with this?

I haven't tried it, myself, but you might need to edit the config file 
of the web server to handle the CGI that you're intending to use as a 
CGI...   For example, Apache needs to be explicitly told that .pl files 
should be treated as Perl CGI.

Hope this helps,
Anthony Albert
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Systems and Software Support Specialist          Postmaster
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