Felipe your form action seem to be wrong. Nothing is listening on port 80 as notwd in your html.
It should be more like http://localhost:8080/... Depending how that default servlet has been mapped to cgi programs. Hopefully that will get you going :) On Nov 20, 2013 3:01 AM, "Felipe" <felipeh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am running Manjaro Linux (0.8.7) using the linux 3.4.69 kernel on a Dell > XPS m1330 laptop. I am trying to run a sample webpage that uses perl and > cgi to handle a form. > These are the steps I took: > > * wget > > http://mirrors.sonic.net/apache/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.0.0-RC5/bin/apache-tomcat-8.0.0-RC5.tar.gz > * tar xvzf apache-tomcat-8.0.0-RC5.tar.gz > * mkdir ~/tomcat > * sudo mv apache-tomcat-8.0.0-RC5 ~/tomcat > * sudo vi ~/.bashrc > * append export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk > * append export CATALINA_HOME=~/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.0-RC5 > * run $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh > > I was able to pull up the tomcat control panel, I then edited the web.xml > file. I uncommented the cgi servlet block as well as the cgi-servlet > mapping block. I also changed path prefix: > <init-param> > <param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name> > <param-value>WEB-INF/cgi-bin/*</param-value> > </init-param> > <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup> > </servlet> > > as well as created a user and password in the tomcat-users.xml, so i could > use the manager GUI. > > I proceeded to create a directory (web) in my home folder > and created a sub-directory (cgi-bin). I have 3 files that make up the web > page. > the html file is as follows: > GNU nano 2.2.6 File: ProjectAnalysis.html > > > <!- Program Name: projest.html -> > > <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Project Analysis</TITLE></HEAD> > <BODY> > > <H2>Average Profit per Project Calculation</H2> > <FORM METHOD=POST > ACTION=" > > http://localhost/home/luis/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.0-RC5/web/cgi-bin/projest.cgi > "> > Total cost of projects last year? <INPUT TYPE=text NAME=projcost SIZE=10> > Number of Projects? <INPUT TYPE=text NAME=projects SIZE=10> > Project revenue received? <INPUT TYPE=text NAME=revenue SIZE=10> > <HR><INPUT TYPE=submit NAME=submit VALUE=Submit> > <INPUT TYPE=reset NAME=reset VALUE="Start over"> > </FORM> > </BODY> > </HTML> > > the .cgi file is as follows: > #!/usr/bin/perl > > # Program name: projest.cgi > > require "subparseform.lib"; > > &Parse_Form; > $projcost = $formdata{'projcost'}; > $projects = $formdata{'projects'}; > $revenue = $formdata{'revenue'}; > > $average = $projcost / $projects; > $average = sprintf("%.2f", $average); > $grossprofit = $revenue - $projcost; > > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; > print "<P>Project Cost Last Year was $projcost dollars."; > print "<P>We completed $projects projects during the year. > That works out to an average of $average cost per project."; > print "<P>Our annual Project Revenue was $revenue dollars. > We made a gross profit of $grossprofit dollars"; > > the subparse.lib file: > GNU nano 2.2.6 File: subparseform.lib > > > sub Parse_Form { > if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'GET') { > @pairs = split(/&/, $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}); > } elsif ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST') { > read (STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}); > @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer); > > if ($ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}) { > @getpairs =split(/&/, $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}); > push(@pairs,@getpairs); > } > } else { > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; > print "<P>Use Post or Get"; > } > > foreach $pair (@pairs) { > ($key, $value) = split (/=/, $pair); > $key =~ tr/+/ /; > $key =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg; > $value =~ tr/+/ /; > $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", > hex($1))/eg; > > $value =~s/<!--(.|\n)*-->//g; > > if ($formdata{$key}) { > $formdata{$key} .= ", $value"; > } else { > $formdata{$key} = $value; > } > } > } > 1; > > > I have manually open the html file from firefox's menu, and I when I submit > data into the farm, I get an unable to connect to server error. I'm not > sure where to go from here, I believe the folder(s) for the web page should > be in the tomcat/apache... folder , I'm just not sure where. > I would appreciate any help on this specific problem. Thanks in advance >
