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Cgi is the common gateway interface, used for interactive webpages.

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Inconsistent "unable to open database file" error from a CGI program using SQLite

I've been running a task program for a psychology experiment on my virtual private server with lighttpd 1.4.28 and Ubuntu 12.04. The experiment is a CGI program written in Perl using a Perl module I wrote, presenting a web interface over Mechanical…
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How do I prevent Apache2 from trying to execute a file as a script?

So basically, I followed this guide about iptraf monitoring and rrdtool to the letter. I put it in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ as usual for cgi scripts. Then, when I visit it from a browser, the images it makes appears to be broken. I set the permissions to…
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php servers without apache/nginx/cgi stack

In many languages, you build web frameworks from the ground up (i.e. from unix sockets) and layer on abstractions. If I want to build a web framework from scratch in OCaml or C, I first build a socket server that listens on port 80. It just came to…
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Perl doesn't work without warnings in CGI

For some reason I can't get a perl script to run in the cgi-bin folder. I haven't made these files and we've uploaded them to another server and they work fine. However I've used the following test.pl file which works fine through bash (as root) and…
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How to display cgi-bin errors instead of 500 in Apache?

I'm interested in getting errors from cgi-bin scripts inside the browser like the PHP errors. The cgi script can be Perl, Python, Ruby, binary or something else. I'm not interested about a specific solution - I'm looking for something that should…
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tomcat server not running after uncommenting servlet tags in web.xml

I am running tomcatserver and i need to execute a perl script. I searched online and found out that i need to uncomment in conf/web.xml cgi …
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CGI permissions with NGINX & FastCGI

I'm running GitWeb (which is essentially a CGI script) on a server which also runs GitLab. My aim is to provide reaad-only access to GitLab repositories without registering people. I've pointed GitWeb to my repositories folder which have permissions…
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How to diagnose erratic disk behavior?

I have a web site with users lighttpd and CGI scripts. After upgrading to Fedora 11 (ext4) the disc access became erratic. The timing of python -c 'import cgi' varies between 0.1 to almost 10 seconds: How can I diagnose the problem? (Tools,…
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How to execute (some) CGI commands as root

I want to put a simple CGI script in my APACHE server. I'd like to write it possibly in C (but also in PERL, if I want). The problem is that it must contain some lines that can be executed only by root (iptables for example), while webuser is the…
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Lighttpd send Nagios command-line output instead of web interface

I recently installed Nagios on an EC2 instance running AmazonLinux (which is basically SuSe, to my understanding). I'm using lighttpd and mod_cgi to serve the web interface. When I navigate to a page, instead of getting the actual content, I get…
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Setting the server to look for index.php file by default

I am a web developer and I've requested our Sys-Admin to setup a server for my team that will be used as a development environment. The PHP is running as a CGI. When i try to open http://myaddress/ I receive 403 Forbidden. When I try to open…
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Unable to SSI include some CGI scripts

I have a page site.shtml on an Apache server in which I am trying to include a few CGI scripts, like so:

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How to serve php requests through a single persistent php-cgi instance?

How to set up PHP Version 5.2.17 on Apache/2 to serve php requests through a single persistent php-cgi instance?
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Munin graphing by CGI

I have Munin working just fine, but any time I try to do cgi graphing - it just stops graphing... no errors in the log, nothing. I've followed the instructions here: http://munin-monitoring.org/wiki/CgiHowto - and it should be working - here's my…
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Force Apache to kill its children after lost connection ("stop button" pressed)

How can I make Apache kill the CGI's that it has spawned, after the client (browser) has closed the connection? I got a couple of CGI's that perform long-running operations and send output every 15 seconds. As soon as the browser closes the…
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