Running cgi-bin on Tomcat: Simple steps & gotchas

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//Samuel

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Please help me to fix the working of CGI which I mentioned above. I am not able to execute ang CGI through TOMCAT.

test.cgi is :


#!\perl\bin\perl.exe

print "IN TEST!\n";
print "\n";
print "IN TEST!\n";
print "\n";


Store Location of test.cgi is : webapps/test/

Output in https://localhost:8080/test/test.cgi


#!\perl\bin\perl.exe print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "\n"; print "\n"; print "
IN TEST!
\n"; print "\n";

Hi,
I followed the steps but I cannot start bat file as cgi script on WinXP. The error is: “java.io.IOException: Cannot run program “perl” (in directory “C:\Program Files\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\test\WEB-INF\cgi”)

I tried to add
param-name=executable
value=cmd /c

or param-name=executable
value=cmd

but without success. Any ideas?

The steps have worked perfectly for many including myself.

Unfortunately I don’t have time at this moment to support your specific issue.

I have been trying to put perl scripts in webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/cgi-bin:

A) printEnv.cgi
#!/usr/bin/perl

print “Content-type: text/html\n\n”;
print “\n”;
foreach $key (sort keys(%ENV)) {
print “$key = $ENV{$key}”;
}

B) Changes to web.xml

cgi
org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet

executable
/usr/bin/perl

clientInputTimeout
100

debug
6

cgiPathPrefix
WEB-INF/cgi-bin

5

cgi
/cgi-bin/*

D) Renamed to servlets-cgi.jar

E) Restarted server

But when I do:
https://mydomain/cgi-bin/printEnv.cgi
it does not go to the URL

Try:
https://localhost:8080/Your web application directory]/cgi-bin/foo.sh

Please closely follow the instructions above.

Please, what is the URL that I shoul enter in order to get the cgi executed?

Does the url below shouldn’t work? it isn’t.
http:localhost:8080//cgi-bin/foo.sh

thanks
Breno Leitão

Hi Rock,

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Best,
Angsuman

hi all.can anybody help me to send and receive mail from my localhost.im using tomcat5 as my localserver.plz help me out..thanks to all

Directly add executables including batch files.
However if your want to execute cmd commands like dir then you will have to use cmd /c dir.

add
param-name=executable
value=
or (windows xp)
param-name=executable
value=cmd /c

Add

executable

or (windows xp)

executable
cmd /c

@Giles Specifying full-path looks logical to me. Java doesn’t invoke executables by looking at the path variable.

I had to specify an executable init param equal to the full path of perl in order to get this to work.

executable
full path of perl

I am not sure why I had to do this since perl should already be in the path. I’m running TomCat 5 on Windows XP Professional.

I did at the bottom.

Don’t forget to uncomment the servlet-mapping for cgi