apache with cgi

[slanning at buphy.bu.edu (Scott Lanning)]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Brad Noyes wrote:
>I looked on the net and i get the impression that, you need
>to have a cgi dirctory in the access.conf file (oh yeah, and i'm
>sure that the permissions on the cgi-script are executable). Can
>any one confirm this? 

yes.

>I then tried to put the scripts in the directory that was suppose
>to be for cgi scripts, and i get an Internal Server Error. I did
>check permissions on this directory. I'm not convinced that this 
>cgi directory that i put the scripts in is the right directory. 

Internal Server Error is just a generic error -- can mean
about anything.. Usually to test I use something like:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI;
my $form = new CGI;
print $form->header, $form->start_html, $form->start_form;

### STUFF HERE ###

print $form->end_form, $form->end_html;
exit;


Then you can replace '### STUFF HERE ###' successively
with

    print 'foo bar baz';

to see if HTML actually works and you have perms right (like 755).
Then with,

    print $form->param('some_cgi_paramter');

where 'some_cgi_parameter' comes from your HTML form or
whatever. One thing to check here is that the HTML form
is also correct.

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