Re: CGI Frustration
This is probably too obvious to ask, but are you sure you have the path statement at the beginning correct? This it tripped me in the beginning. everything seemed perfectly set up, but the path to the engine was wrong If you are being hosted on a virtual server, this can be an issue. If it is an issue, just look at Apache's error logs and you may need to set the path to the mc.exe to something along the lines of : #!/export/vhost/com/h/himalayanacademy/www/public_html/cgi-bin/mc i.e. just look at any path in the error logs and emulate that I had, initially wrongly assumed that I could must put #!mc on startup etc. because the engine was in the same (cgi-bin) directory as the scripts that were calling it... i.e. the default assumption would be use a relative path but, not so... won't work. On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 10:02 AM, Ken Ray wrote: Yes, I set both the Linux executable and the script to 755. What shared libs would MetaCard need? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:40 PM Subject: Re: CGI Frustration ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: CGI Frustration
This is probably too obvious to ask, but are you sure you have the path statement at the beginning correct? Yes, and it actually is working now. I was missing a couple of library files that MetaCard needed under Linux. The #!mc did refer to the same folder that the CGI was running in, so it's working fine now. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: CGI Frustration - Resolved!
Sounds great, Ken! I've been following this one closely. Ray Horsley Developer, LinkIt! Software on 1/23/03 8:50 AM, Ken Ray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick note to let you all know that my problem got resolved, and I have Andu to thank for it. It turned out that my ISP did not have two library files that MC needed to operate, and after we figured that out, Andu sent me the two files my ISP needed in order to get everything going. I'll be posting how I got it working at my web site in case others have similar frustrations in getting MC to work as a CGI. Thanks for everyone's input, and a special thanks to Andu for coming to the rescue! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:48 PM Subject: Re: CGI Frustration Nevermind it was in my previous post (libXext.so.6). I Telnetted in and looked in my /usr/lib directory and sure enough, libXext.so.6 wasn't there. I called by ISP and they are escalating it because they normally don't support anything other than Perl. Sheesh! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:02 PM Subject: Re: CGI Frustration Yes, I set both the Linux executable and the script to 755. What shared libs would MetaCard need? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:40 PM Subject: Re: CGI Frustration It sounds like you did it right, but that the ISP machine is missing some shared libs to run the MetaCard executable One more double check- did you make both the script and the engine executable? It sounds like your setup is ok (see above), but that would also cause problems. Brian linux: error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Did I so something wrong here? Provide a wrong path? ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: CGI Frustration
--On Wednesday, January 22, 2003 11:32:43 -0600 Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I'm finally trying to get MC set up as a CGI. I have an ISP that uses Linux, so I DL'ed the linux engine and uploaded it to my cgi-bin folder. I set the permissions to 755, and have a simple script called test.mt that sits in the cgi-bin folder as well, and its permissions are 755. The script is this... # !linux Try #!mc and make the script executable too. on startup put Hello World! into tResponse put Content-Type: text/html crlf put Content-Length: (the length of tResponse) crlf crlf put tResponse end startup ... and I keep getting an internal server error 500. I tried exactly the same thing on another ISP using BSD (with the exception of the first line being #!mc), and got the same result. I'm convinced I'm just not calling it properly... any ideas? Thanks for any help anyone can provide. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Regards, Andu Novac ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: CGI Frustration
Ken, Can you run the script from the command line? That is, can you connect via Telnet, ssh, etc, and run something like: ./linux test.mc ? If so, then it probably has something to do with the ISP setup / Apache configuration (assuming they use Apache). If not, then it may be your setup. Some tidbits that *could* help (or at least narrow down the problem): 1) Try putting a full path to the mc engine. 2) Try changing the extension to ".cgi". The ISP configuration could possibly only accept cgis with certain extensions. HTH. Brian OK, I'm finally trying to get MC set up as a CGI. I have an ISP that uses Linux, so I DL'ed the linux engine and uploaded it to my cgi-bin folder. I set the permissions to 755, and have a simple script called "test.mt" that sits in the cgi-bin folder as well, and its permissions are 755. The script is this... #!linux on startup put "Hello World!" into tResponse put "Content-Type: text/HTML" crlf put "Content-Length:" (the length of tResponse) crlf crlf put tResponse end startup ... and I keep getting an internal server error 500. I tried exactly the same thing on another ISP using BSD (with the exception of the first line being "#!mc"), and got the same result. I'm convinced I'm just not calling it properly... any ideas? Thanks for any help anyone can provide.
Re: CGI Frustration
# !linux Try #!mc and make the script executable too. The script's already executable (755), but the name of the executable for linux is just called linux. I tried it, though, and got the same error. Thanks anway, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: CGI Frustration
Can you run the script from the command line? That is, can you connect via Telnet, ssh, etc, and run something like: ./linux test.mc Well, I changed the name of the script to simple.cgi, connected via Telnet (I'm not so good at Telnet so tell me if I'm doing something wrong), went to the cgi-bin directory (did a dir just to make sure the files were there) and executed both: ./linux simple.cgi and linux simple.cgi and got this error: linux: error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Did I so something wrong here? Provide a wrong path? 1) Try putting a full path to the mc engine. Well, it's at an ISP, where it's basically: IP address/www/cgi-bin/simple.cgi So, would the full path be: #!/www/cgi-bin/simple.cgi? Thanks, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Re: CGI Frustration
--On Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:11:01 -0600 Ken Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # !linux Try #!mc and make the script executable too. The script's already executable (755), but the name of the executable for linux is just called linux. I tried it, though, and got the same error. Are you sure that you gunzip-ed the mc.gz out of the folder named linux after you un-tar-ed the linux.tar file? You should obtain a mc executable. Thanks anway, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard Regards, Andu Novac ___ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
