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Hi,

I have problem running my cgi scripts under Apache Tomcat server. I am
using Apache Tomcat/5.5.20 on WinXP. I followed the instruction tips I
found out at

http://www.wellho.net/forum/Perl-Programming/Running-Perl-CGI-scripts...

http://www.ftponline.com/javapro/2003_03/online/perl_teden_03_18_03/p...

but still I could not get the scripts running.

I get HTTP status 404 error.

The directory structure I have is (Please ignore the line break)
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\webapps
\examples #
this is folder I created it
\WEB-INF #
this is folder I created it
\cgi
# this is folder I created it
------> script1.cgi
------> script2.cgi

The script runs perfectly on Apache HTTPD server. Can any one tell me
clearly what needs to be done to get my script running.

Thank you,
Regards,
kath

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Member Avatar for katharnakh

Hi,

I have problem running my cgi scripts under Apache Tomcat server. I am
using Apache Tomcat/5.5.20 on WinXP. I followed the instruction tips I
found out at

http://www.wellho.net/forum/Perl-Programming/Running-Perl-CGI-scripts...

http://www.ftponline.com/javapro/2003_03/online/perl_teden_03_18_03/p...

but still I could not get the scripts running.

I get HTTP status 404 error.

The directory structure I have is (Please ignore the line break)
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\webapps
\examples #
this is folder I created it
\WEB-INF #
this is folder I created it
\cgi
# this is folder I created it
------> script1.cgi
------> script2.cgi

The script runs perfectly on Apache HTTPD server. Can any one tell me
clearly what needs to be done to get my script running.

Thank you,
Regards,
kath

Hi,
I got it. The mistake I was doing was I was keeping the cgi folder in separate folder(examples) under webapps.
I need to keep the cgi/*.cgi in
../webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF folder.

But I don't know why server looks only in ROOT, might be default.
How can make server understand that the Perl/CGI scripts are kept in separate drive:/folder?


Thank you,
Regards,
kath.

Member Avatar for parani

Hi Katharnakh,

Can you please check the POST "Tomcat-Perl-Perl" and reply if you are aware of the problem?

Thanx
/Parani.

Member Avatar for raj_3y2k

Hi,

I'm new to Perl, I installed ActivePerl in my machine and it is running properly. But when I'm trying to open a CGI using Tomcat I'm getting HTTP Status 404 error.

This is the directory I created C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.10\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\cgi and in the cgi folder I have a file named hello.cgi

hello.cgi contains the following code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "<html><head>\n";
print "<title>Hello, world!</title></head>\n";
print "<body bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" text=\"#000000\" link=\"#FF0000\" vlink=\"#800000\">\n";
print "<h1>Hello, world!</h1>\n";
print "<a href=\"../perl/tutorial.html\"><b>Back</b></a> to the Tutorial\n";
print "</body></html>\n";

Then I type http://localhost/hello.cgi in the browser I got HTTP Status 404 - /hello.cgi. The requested resource (/hello.cgi) is not available.

Can anyone help me regarding this problem

Thank you,
raj

Member Avatar for KevinADC

At best the url is just wrong, you left out the cgi folder in the path:

http://localhost/cgi/hello.cgi

At worst your server is not setup correctly, but I know nothing of Tomcat, which is not a perl topic anyway, but an http server question. The fact you can't run the perl script has nothing to do with perl, but with the server.

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