Why is cgi-bin special?

I have a server side perl script running in the cgi-bin
directory that returns html to the client. It embeds a flash object
with the standard <object> and <embed>
tags. The HTML is received correctly by the client, but the flash
object does not display.
If you save the received page as static html, it displays
just fine, so the syntax is correct. Obviously saved someplace
other than the cgi-bin directory, as it is not readable, generally.
Once the html is returned to the client, how can the
rendering be different from a static html page? I'm saying that if
you do "view source", once from the returned html
and once from the static page, you see no differences, whatsover.
The only difference is the URL of the page. When
"cgi-bin" is in the URL, the object does not
display.

Thanks, Barbara! That did the trick. I was in expert mode but I clicked on 'guided' then clicked on 'expert' again and it showed up.

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Video plays on Root folder but not in Cgi-bin folder...Help!

Hello-
I just transfered my entire website content form one domain to another and for some reson my videos will not play on the new domain whereas they played correctly in the cg-bin folder of the old domain. I do not understand why and need your help to figure it out since I am not a flash guy.
Here is the link to the videos that are not working correctly. http://www.healthywaterlife.com/cgi-bin/d.cgi/phil/videos.html
My cgi guy says that all of the cgi is working correctly and he has stated that the problem lies within the code of the html. So here is the html code for one of the videos...
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="605" height="350" id="FLVPlayer1">
 <param name="movie" value="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" />
 <param name="salign" value="lt" />
 <param name="quality" value="high" />
 <param name="scale" value="noscale" />
 <param name="FlashVars" value="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Clear_Skin_1&streamName=http://www.healthywaterlife.com/videos/historyofkangenwater&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=fals e" />
 <embed src="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" flashvars="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Clear_Skin_1&streamName=http://www.healthywaterlife.com/videos/historyofkangenwater&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=fals e" quality="high" scale="noscale" width="605" height="350" name="FLVPlayer1" salign="LT" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" />
</object>
And yes, my server, codero, supports all of the cgi as the old domain worked well and was operating on the codero server.
Thanks for your help!

Are you sure that all the files have been uploaded?
The player.swf, the skin.swf, the actual .flv video file, and what about any javascript files used for Flash detection? So that could be as many as 4 files.
To test, paste the entire absolute address to each of those files directly into your browser address bar, like this:
http://www.healthywaterlife.com/videos/FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf
You should not see ANY file not found messages.
After verifying that each file exists on the server, then it's only a matter of correctly pathing all the Flash assets, and pathing includes correctly spelling file names (upper or lower case.. must be exact) as well using correct folder names.
To review Flash pathing:
Pathing issues
Almost always when it works on the local machine and not the server, it's a pathing problem.
You can put your Flash related files in whatever folders you want, they do NOT have to be in the root, they do NOT all have to be in the same folder. But if you have a problem and if sticking them all in the root folder works, then you know that the issue was a pathing problem.
Just remember that paths used in the .swf become relative to the Web page on which the .swf is placed, NOT it’s physical location. So for example, if your .swf is in the flash/data folder and you use that .swf on a Web page in the root folder, you are in effect, removing that .swf from flash/data and putting it in root. So if the .swf is loading any related files (xml, images, video, etc), the path used inside the .swf to load the .xml file has to be relative to it's new location in root and then back down into flash/data. This is true even though when testing the .swf by itself, it can be inside flash/data and work just fine, since relative to it's location, the path is just fine, they are in the same folder. But if that same path is used when the .swf is placed on a page two folder levels up, the relative path has changed, the old "same folder" path will not work.
In fact if you are placing the .swf on a web page in a different folder than the .swf is stored in, and that .swf calls external assets, then direct clicking and opening of the .swf in it’s folder should NOT work! That’s because the paths to the external assets should be relative to the Web page and not the physical location of the .swf.
So just be sure that you use addresses relative to the final Web page locations (not physical file locations) and you can put the Flash related files in what ever folders you want.
Best wishes,
Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com
If that doesn't fix it, post a link. That really give us the best chance to help you.
Best of luck!
Adninjastrator

What is the relationship between CGI-Executables and cgi-bin?

I am trying to get CGIs working locally on my Mac and am having difficulty understanding the relationship between CGI-Executables/ and cgi-bin/.
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Now I am having trouble getting CGI to work in the user directories. I have a perl script that works for 127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/test.cgi, but not for 127.0.0.1/~joe/cgi-bin/test.cgi.
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</Limit>
<LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
Order deny,allow
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</LimitExcept>
</Directory>
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<Directory "/Users/joe/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews Includes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
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<Directory "/Users/joe/Sites/">
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Order allow,deny
Allow from all
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my server has a CGI-BIN.... does it surport servlets??

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I am doing the tutorial for networks, and I am supposed to create a connection to http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/backwards to test communication. However, it does not exist. Does anyone know what the correct address is, or know of some equvalent site?
Also, is it not possible to save login information on this site. It is cumbersom to manually log in every time I visit these fora.
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/etc/httpd/httpd.conf
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This isn't perfect, but it's probably pretty close to what you're looking for. You may need to play around with some <Directory/> tags for your cgi-bin directory, or (as the example illustrates below), just put your cgi scripts in the document root for mail.mydomain.com.
<Directory "/home/httpd/html/www.mydomain.com">
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory "/home/httpd/html/mail.mydomain.com">
AllowOverride All
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Allow from all
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CustomLog logs/www.mydomain.com_access.log combined
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<VirtualHost mail.mydomain.com:80>
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farphel

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2) Who is responsible for putting files in it?
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If you wan't to make the CGIs work server-wide, the default location is /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables. The default web server setting already has a ScriptAlias directive pointing any address written as www.example.com/cgi-bin redirect to this directory. The global webmaster... the server administrator is responsible for all CGIs in this directory.
If you want to let each individual webmasters take care of their own CGIs, each website can override this by creating their own cgi directory within their own web directory. This directory can be named anything (e.g. "/scripts/"). Generic form-to-mail type CGIs are usually placed in the /Library/Web... directory for global usage, but if a script is only used by a single website, it's usually put inside their own web directory. You may want to tweak their httpd.conf file to assign this folder as the ScriptAlias target. When you do this, websites can execute the CGIs with the .cgi extension (i.e. pass the script on to whatever compiler/interpretor, like perl). Otherwise, you'll need to name each script like scriptname.pl or scriptname.c instead of scriptname.cgi.
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I installed a form mail product called Formail several months
ago. I am using Dreamweaver 8 at work. I am creating a new form and
cannot find my cgi-bin file to modify the program. Does anybody
have any experience with this program in Dreamweaver? I have
earched for hours. The old form I created still works great but I
cannot trace it back to the cgi-bin file. I think I have been
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> I installed a form mail product called Formail several
months ago. I am
using
> Dreamweaver 8 at work. I am creating a new form and
cannot find my cgi-bin
file
> to modify the program. Does anybody have any experience
with this program
in
> Dreamweaver? I have earched for hours. The old form I
created still works
great
> but I cannot trace it back to the cgi-bin file. I think
I have been
working to
> long!!!!!
>

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String[] cgi = {"/bin/bash","./home/pap/jhttp"+Petition_Analysis.pt.uri.path,"/n"};
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DataOutputStream put = new DataOutputStream(cgiOut.getOutputStream());
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DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(cgiOut.getInputStream());
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first_operand=342&second_operand=32&operation=-
Note that there is a blank line !

Well no, the script works perfectly, here is the output of the console in Linux system and this exactly what i want to do in the program:
[pap@laptop pap]$ export CONTENT_LENGTH=11
[pap@laptop pap]$ export REQUEST_METHOD=POST
[pap@laptop pap]$ /home/pap/jhttp/cgi-bin/post_form.cgi
op1=1&op2=2
Content-Type: text/html
<html><head><title>Script results</title></head>
<body>
Number of sent fields: 2

Field: op1 
Valor: 1


Field: op2 
Valor: 2

</body></html>
So the question is how to this inside a Java program and better forget my code which is erroneous
also forgive my english :)

Cgi-bin, form set-up

I want to create a registry on our website wherein a customer can setup his/her own registry page, type in what products he/she wants, their quantities, etc.
I understand that to do this one has first to have a "cgi-bin" file on their site to which all such forms point.
I currently cannot find any cgi-bin folder on our site. So, am I correct in stating I need one, and if so, how do I go about creating same?
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