[cobalt-users] CGI Madness

[Patrick Béart <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks:

	I was reading the recent ("CGIIII...") posts and feeling 
quite smug, when suddenly I received a message from one of my clients 
informing me that his Contact page wasn't working. I use the same 
"mailto.cgi" program for all such minor forms processing, so I know 
the upload and permissions process well. Any cogent suggestions or 
assistance would be appreciated.
	The weird thing about this is that I have the EXACT same CGI 
script running on another site without any problems. I even copied 
the working script AND directory over to this (site15) client's site, 
in case some weird defect was present in either the directory or the 
files contained.
		TIA

Details --

	Server:  Cobalt Raq3, updated to OS 3.0

	cgi-bin directory: 	Permissions Set to 711, subdirector 
to users "web" directory

	File "mailto.cgi", permissions set to 755, per "README" file.

	cgi-bin directory and its files were uploaded via FTP with 
the user/clients username and password, not as "admin".


Here's what's happening:

	Fill out the Contact page form and hit "SEND". The resulting 
screen says:

	"The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and
                                               was unable to complete 
your request."

	However, the form information IS passed on, via Email, just 
as if the program had run without incident! I read Stroebel's  "CGI 
RAQ" page (http://users.iol.it/hpstr/), but didn't see anything that 
could explain WHY this is happening.

Here's the Telnet output for the directory:

/home/sites/site15/web/cgi-bin
[sbarnett@tesla cgi-bin]$ ls -l
total 57
-rw-rw-r--   1 	sbarnett 	site15      10284 Aug  5 16:08 	README
-rw-rw-r--   1	 sbarnett 	site15       4960 Aug  5 16:08 	Var_Sub.pm
-rw-rw-r--   1 	sbarnett 	site15       3361 Aug  5 16:21 	checks.pl
-rwxrwxr-x   1 	sbarnett 	site15      16920 Aug  5 16:21 	mailto.cgi
-rw-rw-r--   1 	sbarnett 	site15      16803 Aug  5 16:08 	mailto.cgi(old)
-rw-rw-r--   1 	sbarnett 	site15         39 Aug  5 16:08 	manifest



And here's the output of the daemon, per Stroebel's page:

********* 
http://www.barnettgroupinc.com/cgiwrapDir/cgiwrapd/mailto.cgi 
*********

Initializing Logging
Redirecting STDERR to STDOUT


Cobalt RaQ virtual site CGI wrapper

Setting SIGXCPU to default behaviour


Environment Variables:
     QUERY_STRING: ''
      SCRIPT_NAME: '/cgiwrapDir/cgiwrapd'
        PATH_INFO: '/mailto.cgi'
  PATH_TRANSLATED: '/home/sites/site15/web/mailto.cgi'
      REMOTE_USER: '<NULL>'
      REMOTE_HOST: '<NULL>'
      REMOTE_ADDR: '206.103.56.136'


Trying to extract user from PATH_INFO.
Retrieved User Name:  ''

*****************
* CGIWrap Error *
*****************

Execution of (/home/sites/site15/web/mailto.cgi) is not permitted
for the following reason:

        Script file not found.


****************************************
* Local Information and Documentation: *
****************************************

        Contact Name: Administrator
        Contact EMail: admin

****************
* Server Data: *
****************

        Server Administrator/Contact: admin
        Server Name: www.barnettgroupinc.com
        Server Port: 80
        Server Protocol: HTTP/1.0

*****************
* Request Data: *
*****************

        User Agent/Browser: Mozilla/4.72 (Macintosh; I; PPC)
        Request Method: GET
        Remote Address: 206.103.56.136
        Remote Port: 1384
        Extra Path Info: /mailto.cgi

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Patrick Beart
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