Enabling CGI's in Tomcat

2006-10-20 Thread Kevin Mullin
I'm using the book Tomcat: the definitive guide from O'reilly, but it was written for Tomcat 4.x, and I'm using 5.5.17. In doing things to enable servlet processing it says (on pg. 65, step 4) to: Either place the CGI scripts under the WEB-INF/cgi directory well, I have lots of WEB-INF

RE: Enabling CGI's in Tomcat

2006-10-20 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Kevin Mullin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Enabling CGI's in Tomcat We'll presume you have read this first: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/cgi-howto.html And also the comments in the CGI portion of conf/web.xml. well, I have lots of WEB-INF directories, I suspect

Re: ***SPAM 6.3*** Enabling CGI's in Tomcat

2006-10-20 Thread Rob Truxler
Hi Kevin, It sounds like Chuck already pointed to the most valuable resources. Keep in mind that cgi is supported by tomcat but may not necessarily be the best option for future development. If you're using legacy code, that's a different story and so sometimes its the only option. I've

RE: ***SPAM 6.3*** Enabling CGI's in Tomcat

2006-10-20 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Rob Truxler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ***SPAM 6.3*** Enabling CGI's in Tomcat There are multiple WEB-INF folders, so if you're using a theoretical servlet helloworld, you would place your cgi script in /helloworld/WEB-INF/cgi/ and the URL which tomcat maps