According to the servlet spec, nothing in the WEB-INF directory can be directly accessed by the client. That's what leads met to believe a servlet somewhere is handling the request and passing back the raw file. Does the app hide anything else in the WEB-INF folder (images, css, pages, etc., ...) and send it to the client on request?
--David
Brelsfoard, Alex wrote:
Thanks David. Question 1: Yes. I've made this mistake enogh times in the past that I'm pretty good about it now. Plus I have made other changes that required (and received) a Tomcat reboot after doing that name change.
Question 2: That's a good thought... I've gone through the mappings and cannot find anything that would interfere with my cgi script....
Good thinking. Any other ideas? Thanks. --Alex
Alex Brelsfoard
Web Applications Developer
Web Development Office
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
508-831-6147
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From: David Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 2/9/2005 6:02 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Trouble getting CGI script to execute
I know I'm coming into this very late. I was hoping Mark was going to nail this on the head for you -- especially since I don't actually use the cgi-servlets piece in my stuff. But I also hate to see a problem like this get stalled.
Question 1: This is a basic one, but I've had my share of Homer Simpson moments. Did you restart the server after renaming $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/servlets-cgi.renametojar to $CATALINA/server/lib/servlets-cgi.jar and uncommenting the relevant parts of $CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml?
Question 2: What do you have in your web.xml file for servlet mappings? It seems to me some kind of mapping is overriding the mappings in
$CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml and simply offering the file from
WEB-INF/cgi-bin/ rather than executing it.
--David
Brelsfoard, Alex wrote:
Thanks I really appreciate your help. --Alex
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-----Original Message----- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 4:42 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Trouble getting CGI script to execute
Brelsfoard, Alex wrote:
Luckily this server is dedicated to this one application. And I have
everything backed up. Though security is ALWAYS an issue, it's at
least less of an issue on this server. If today's attempts do not get
this woprking, I am most likely just going to turn off Tomcat's CGI
abilities and then install Apache and just limit the heck out of it.
Here is the CGI bits from the web.xml config file:
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<snip>
This looks fine.
I am afraid I have run out of ideas. If this was my system I would run up tomcat under a debugger and start stepping through code.
It must be a configuration problem but I just can't figure out what.
Mark
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