PHP CGI scripts problem

I am using iPlanet webserver on a Win 2000 machine. Amongst the other things
I am doing with it, I have some PHP scripts which I want to run on it.
I have followed the manual on CGI, but I cannot get it to work.
After using the Admin setup, the 'obj.conf' file contains:
NameTrans fn="pfx2dir" from="/abc" dir="c:/Netscape/Server4/xyz" name="cgi"
Service fn="send-cgi" type="magnus-internal/cgi"
<Object name="cgi">
ObjectType fn="force-type" type="magnus-internal/cgi"
Service fn="send-cgi"
</Object>
The 'mime.types' file contains:
type=magnus-internal/cgi exts=cgi,exe,bat,php
type=application/x-php exts=php
Windows is set up to recognise '.php' extensions and run the PHP
interpreter.
The error message which I get is:
[03/Oct/2001:16:38:51] failure ( 900): for host 132.132.132.132 trying to
GET /zyz/test.php, send-cgi reports: could not send new process (The
operation completed successfully.
[03/Oct/2001:16:38:51] failure ( 900): cgi_send:cgi_start_exec
c:\Netscape\Server4\abc\test.php failed
Any ideas why this does not work?
Steven

Hi Steven ,
Follow exactly
http://benoit.noss.free.fr/php/install-php4.html
to install and configure PHP in IWS under WIndowsNT.
If it still does'nt works notify me.
Regards
T.Raghulan
[email protected]

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$mailHeader .= "Content-Type: text/plain;   charset=\"ISO-8859-1\"\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\r\n\r\n";
$mailMessage .= trim(strip_tags($w4fMessage))."\r\n\r\n";
if (!mail($MailToAddress, $MailSubject, $mailMessage,$mailHeader)) { echo "Error sending e-mail!";}
else { header("Location: ".$redirectURL); }
} else { echo "<center><font face=verdana size=3 color=red><b>ILLEGAL EXECUTION DETECTED!</b></font></center>";}
?>
Thanks in advance,
Glenn
[Subject line edited by moderator to indicate nature of request]

Using PHP to process an online form and send the input by email is very simple. The mail() function takes a minimum of three arguments, namely: the address the mail is being sent to, the subject line, and the body of the email as a single string. The reason some people use scripts like form2mail.php is because they don't have the knowledge or patience to validate the user input to make sure it's safe to send.
Rather than attempt to trawl through your complex form looking for the problems, I would suggest starting with a couple of simple tests.
First of all, create a PHP page called mailtest.php containing the following script:
<?php
$to = '[email protected]'; // use your own email address
$subject = 'PHP mail test';
$message = 'This is a test of the mail() function.';
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message);
if ($sent) {
echo 'Mail was sent';
} else {
echo 'Problem sending mail';
?>
Save the script, upload it to your server, and load it into a browser. If you see "Mail is sent", you're in business. If not, it probably means that the hosting company insists on the fifth argument being supplied to mail(). This is your email address preceded by -f. Change the line of code that sends the mail to this:
$sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, null, '[email protected]');
Obviously, replace "[email protected]" with your own email address.
If this results in the mail being sent successfully, you will need to adapt the code in form2mail.php to accept the fifth parameter. You need to change the following line, which is a few lines from the end of the script:
if (!mail($MailToAddress, $MailSubject, $mailMessage,$mailHeader))
Change it to this:
if (!mail($MailToAddress, $MailSubject, $mailMessage,$mailHeader, '[email protected]'))
Again, use your own email address instead of "[email protected]".
Once you have determined whether you need the fifth argument, test form2mail.php with a very simple form like this:
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="form2mail.php">
<p>
    <label for="name">Name:</label>
    <input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
</p>
<p>
    <label for="email">Email:</label>
    <input type="text" name="email" id="email" />
</p>
<p>
    <label>
      <input type="checkbox" name="options[]" value="boat cleaning" id="options_0" />
      Boat cleaning</label>
    <br />
    <label>
      <input type="checkbox" name="options[]" value="RV cleaning" id="options_1" />
      RV cleaning</label>
    <br />
    <label>
      <input type="checkbox" name="options[]" value="motorcycle cleaning" id="options_2" />
      Motorcycle cleaning</label>
</p>
<p>
    <input type="submit" name="send" id="send" value="Submit" />
</p>
</form>
If that works, you can start to make the form more complex and add back your JavaScript validation.

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Hi. I've written a test cgi script which echoes any data it's sent back to the client, and I'm trying to write a java application that reads data from files on my hard drive and sends it to the cgi application.
The method I've used is the same as the one described in the tutorial on this site, ie. create an URL object, open an URLConnection, get output stream from URLConnection, write data to output stream.
The problem however is that the java application writes to the output stream at a much faster rate than my internet connection can handle, and so when I try to send more than a few kb the data doesn't seem to get sent at all. Is there some way I can control the rate at which data is sent, or is there a better way of sending data to a cgi application?
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Ose.

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i am a web developer. everything works fine on firefox every time and my first browser which i always use it is firefox... but only a problem, never solved. FLASH UPLOAD PROBLEM.. there is a IO Error problem and it has never been solved... But with 18.0 version update , i had a new problem with Uploadify (flash based upload script). There is a session problem. this problem has never been before 18.0.. and my script works on other web browsers correctly now.
i post data PHPSESSID from flash plugin, then write to top of php uploader script session_id(POST_DATA) ; session_start(); but still problem has not been solved.

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Has anyone else encountered such a problem?

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Just a shot in the dark, but does the script have eXecute privs? You
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http://newsgroups.bea.com/cgi-bin/dnewsweb?cmd=xover&group=weblogic.developer.interest.webserver&utag=
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Bruce
Rick wrote:
>
I've setup CGI support in my WebLogic 6.1SP3 installation, on my Solaris box. I am attempting to run a simple script that prints a message to the screen/browser. When I attempt to run the CGI script, I see the contents of the script on screen. The script is never actually processed.
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Anything with which anyone's familiar? Searching returns (of course) how to invoke CGI from Servlet containers which is obviously not what I need.
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Hi Michael,
I am running 7.0 on Win NT while its the same case its displaying the whole content
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Thanks
Shivani
Michael Young <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi.
What platform/OS version are you running WLS on?
Thanks,
Michael
Suren Jain wrote:
Hi,
We are having problems invoking cgi scripts from the browser.
When we try to access it, it is not executed, instead the script is displayed
in the browser.
We are using weblogic 5.1 and sp9.
In the properties file we have specified
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weblogic.httpd.initArgs.cgi-bin=\
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Appreciate your help.
Thanks
Suren.--
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"cannot execute CGI script " error

Greetings.
I am trying to setup a Sun One version 6.1 server. When I try to run a simple cgi script, with a .pl suffix, I get:
"cannot execute CGI script "
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alan

One thing I'd like to mention is this document:
Document ID: 75347
Title: Sun[TM] ONE WebServer 6 - cannot execute CGI script - Permission denied
which states:
case 2: The value for the chroot is NOT set and NO rights are granted
for cgi's to execute anywhere.
<PROPERTY name="chroot" value=""/>
Note that the value of "value=" above will differ from your setup but that
the location of the line within the server.xml file should be easily
identifiable by the formatting described above.
To quickly identify a fix, grant permissions from the root level by
modifying the line to look thus:
<PROPERTY name="chroot" value=""/>
The problem and fix look to be the same. Any idea what the fix should look like ?
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alan

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I'm getting an error while trying to run a HAL routine from a perl- cgi initiated from a web browser. Perl-Cgi script runs fine when run from command line.
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Vipul,
Vipul Sanghvi wrote:
I am facing problem in running a Perl CGI Script on Weblogic
Application
Server
I set the CGIServlet Property in the Weblogic Properties file as
weblogic.httpd.register.cgi-bin=weblogic.servlet.CGIServlet
weblogic.httpd.initArgs.cgi-bin=\
cgiDir=/weblogic/myserver/public_html/cgi-bin,\
*.pl=/bin/perl.exe,\It shouldn't end with ,\ right?
Was it a mistake?
-Kumar
>
I installed the Perl on my system and put the perl exe in the bin
directory
of the Weblogic App Server. But I am getting the error "failed to
execute
the test.pl ". Where test.pl is a simple test perl script.
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[SOLVED] nginx, php-cgi, rewrite url, 502 bad gateway.

Hello everyone.
I just set my nginx server, with php-cgi, as it is in the wiki site and it is working perfectly. I have just one problem. I am trying to rewrite my url, and I got an error after several refreshes.
This is my site configuration.
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost testwebsite testwebsite.homelinux.org;
access_log logs/testwebsite.access.log main;
location / {
root /home/www/testwebsite;
index index.php;
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When I am not trying to rewrite the url, everything is ok, but when I try to rewrite it, after several refreshes on the page, I got nginx error: 502 bad gateway, and the cgi deamon stops to work.
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Can someone tell me what is wrong with my rewrite rule, please.
Regards.
Last edited by Gruntz (2010-04-08 15:58:50)

I fixed it with that rewrite:
rewrite ^([^.]*)$ /index.php?path=$1;

Invoke CGI script in JSP?

Hello All:
I tried to use:
<jsp:include flush="true" page="/cgi/test.cgi">to invoke CGI script. The problem is the parameters in request were not passed to CGI. There is no this issue if page invoked is JSP.
I am using SunONE Web Server 6.1
I appreciate you for any consideration.

Well, you can only do that when the new page is complete - probably in the onload event. Which means you have to tell it which field you want to focus - probably by submitting an extra parameter.
Heres a working example:
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function saveCurrentField(field){
    document.forms[0].currentField.value = field.name;
function focusLastField(){
    var lastField = "${param.currentField}";
    document.forms[0][lastField].focus();
</script>
</head>
<body onload="focusLastField()">
<h1>Testing jsp to focus a field on load of the page</h1>
<form>
<table>
<tr><td>Name:</td><td><input type="text" name="name" value="${param.name}" onchange="saveCurrentField(this); this.form.submit();"></td></tr>
<tr><td>email:</td><td> <input type="text" name="email" value="${param.email}" onchange="saveCurrentField(this); this.form.submit();"></td></tr>
<tr><td>Age:</td><td>
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</select>
</td></tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="currentField">
</form>
</body>
</html>I wrote it using EL expressions.
If you don't have a JSP2.0 container, or EL is not enabled, replace those ${param.xxxxxx} expressions with <%= request.getParameter"xxxxxxx") %>
Cheers,
evnafets

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