Re: [cobalt-users] [Qube2] can't fire a setup script in a user home directory

[Marco Baurdoux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi Colin,
put the script in the web folder of your site and then call it like this:

http://www.mydomain.com/cgiwrapDir/cgiwrapd/setup.pl


This will allow you to see the error output produced by the cgi-wrapper


le 26.9.2001 19:38, Colin J. Raven à cjraven@xxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :

> Hi All!
> Now it's my turn to holler for some help.
> On a Qube2 I have a user "webstuff" and into that user's home dir I
> stuffed some .pl files (scripts to install a mail broadcast app). All
> permissions have been rigorously checked and the browser can see the
> script but gives me the following error message:
> CGIWrap was unable to find the user 'webstuff/setup.pl' in the password
> file on this server.
> Just in case (although my documentation says it's unecessary) I made a
> cgi-bin
> directory in the user's www dir, adjusted group, ownership and perms all
> over again, & got the same result.
> Renaming the file to .cgi produced nothing different.
> errrr....h.e.l.p. <grin> I don't do much www stuff as can be clearly
> seen, mostly mail in various flavors.
> Regards,
> -Colin
> --
> Colin J. Raven
> 
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