Re: [cobalt-users] cgi-wrapper error

[Alfredo <alfredo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi again
>
> The counter and FormMail scripts are still not working properly but it might
> have something to do with the way they are called, cause when I call them
> directly from the shell I get no errors.
>
> When I insert "use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser)", it tells me nothing for
> the counter and
> nothing for FormMail.


Okay, I'm a bit confused because the email I received that you sent a 
half hour before this one says you found the counter answer 
(permissions). But I assume that you're still struggling with it? 
Looks that way.

So WHERE exactly on your server is the page that calls the counter?

It's a shtml file, right?

> Another output from the shell:
> perl -w FormMail.pl
> [Fri Jan  5 19:33:37 2001] FormMail.pl: Use of uninitialized value at
> FormMail.pl line 119.
> [Fri Jan  5 19:33:37 2001] FormMail.pl: Use of uninitialized value at
> FormMail.pl line 123.

Wellll...not very heavy error. Comes up a lot with functional 
scripts. It just means that a value is called BEFORE it's actually 
defined in the script (but that doesn't matter because PERL loops and 
gets the expression again and so it's just a split second delay).

Anyway, let's see what else we have here.

> The same for the counter:
> perl -w FormMail.pl
> [Fri Jan  5 19:34:26 2001] counter.pl: Argument "" isn't numeric in ne at
> counter.pl line 62.

Well, not exactly the same thing because this line could be useful. 
What counter program are you using marc -- I want to take a look at 
it. Let me know the name and url of it because I'm probably familiar 
with it already but want to look it over before

> [Fri Jan  5 19:34:26 2001] counter.pl: Use of uninitialized value at
> counter.pl line 62.
> [Fri Jan  5 19:34:26 2001] counter.pl: Use of uninitialized value at
> counter.pl line 72.

No problem.

> Permissions:
>
> FormMail.pl : -rwx --- ---


This is Matt Wright's script, right? I use to use this one a while back.

First off, permissions SHOULD be -rwx r-x r-x (anonymous users MUST 
be able to read and execute the script -- it's written that way)

AND, unless this is in the cgi-bin sub-directory, you should probably 
change the script name to formmail.cgi. PL suffixes don't work that 
well outside of a cgi-bin.

Make sure you call this script with FULL url (in your form's "action" 
section use the entire url to the script) and that opens your script 
to tremendous abuse BUT that's why the "referers" section is there: 
to block abusive people. Make your entry there your domain ONLY (no 
www or anything).

> counter.pl     : -rwx r-x r-x

That's good.

> data dir        : drwx rwx rwx
> data file       : -rw- --- r--


Hmmm...you may have a permissions problem with that data file, Marc. 
I always open up my data files completely unless there's a real 
security problem. First, try it at 777 (rwx-rwx-rwx) and see what 
happens and then you can start cutting permissions back. At this 
point, if there is a nobody routine from the script or if your 
serving is treating the script as httpd or something you'll get an 
access error. Still, I don't know why this would produce the error 
you're getting but...try it.

Let me know what happens when you try these things.

Alfredo
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