Ted Byers wrote:
> I looked at the page for setting up CGI on Tomcat 6, but the paragraph that
> follows leads to some confusion.
> 
> "Remove the XML comments from around the CGI servlet and servlet-mapping
> configuration in $CATALINA_BASE/conf/web.xml."
> 
> Apparently the jar the XML file refers to no longer exists.

You can just ignore any reference to renaming the jar. The rest is the same.

> And it isn't clear where to put my perl scripts, or if I can place them in,
> say, a cgi-bin directory located where all my web apps can access and use
> them.
> 
> Is there a document providing instructions on how to set up CGI that is both
> complete and correct for Tomcat 6?

Yes. The CGI how to.

> I would suggest, though, that
> "http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/cgi-howto.html"; be ammended to at
> least say what parts of the cgi stuff in the xml file can safely be ignored
> because it refers to Tomcat 5.x, and describes what is needed for a globally
> accessable ci script repository.  I find the combination of the xml file
> referring to an old Tomcat with the above mentioned web page confusing.

This has already been fixed. You need 6.0.18 onwards.

Its even in the change log:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/changelog.html

Mark



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