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cgi-bin is a special folder in web server's files and folder structure, designed to contains executable scripts written in CGI (Common Gateway Interface). These folders has often a specific properties, i.e. might be auto re-created once deleted or may be blocked from deletion.

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Ruby equivalent of PHP's $_GET

What is the bare minimum I need to require in Ruby (not Rails or any other framework) to easily obtain request data like GETs? I would like to avoid having to use ruby on rails or any other framework to get this data, so the ideal answer wouldn't…
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Why does my Perl CGI program return a server error?

I recently got into learning cgi and I set up an Ubuntu server in vbox. The first program I wrote was in Python using vim through ssh. Then I installed Eclipse on my Windows 7 station and created the exact same Perl file; just a simple hello world…
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Cron Job - Could not open input file:

I have set up a php file to run that just echos hello. My cron job looks like this: /usr/local/bin/php -f “/home/username/public_html/mls/test.php” when my script runs i get a confirmation email that says: Could not open input…
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Apache taking 20sec to start running CGI script

Any ideas as to why my Apache/2.0.49 server always waits 20 seconds from receiving a request that is executed using a cgi-bin script to starting to run that script? The server responds immediately to normal HTTP requests that only use static…
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ScriptAlias configuration not working in apache2

I installed apache2 on ubuntu. I added the following to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/PROJECT/cgi-bin/" I am able to open the cgi file if i copy the cgi file to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/hello.cgi[DocumentRoot directory] and…
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CGI not executing python - 500 internal server error

I have a few python scripts that I'd like to execute and the following configuration: Ubuntu 10.04, Apache2, Python 2.6, mod_python and mod_wsgi installed. I've followed the instructions on the following sites:…
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Minimal http server for testing cgi-bin

I have developed and maintain a web application which acts as a front end for some scrips in cgi-bin which in turn call C programs on the server. The web server is Apache2, hosted both on my office Linux box for testing and on Amazon ECC for the…
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CGI script not executing but displaying content after installing mooshak

Recently, I downloaded and installed mooshak in Ubuntu 14.04. I followed all the steps given in the requirements and installation page. When I try to access http://localhost/~mooshak, I'm being redirected to http://localhost/~mooshak/cgi-bin/execute…
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/dev/mem access denied on raspberry pi

I am working with my Raspberry Pi and I am writing a cgi python script that creates a webpage to control my gpio out pins. My script crashes when I try to import RPi.GPIO as GPIO. This is the error that I am getting: File "./coffee.py", line 7, in…
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cgi-bin directory contents: What else can be stored there, apart from the CGI scripts/executables?

What files should/should not be stored in the cgi-bin folder/directory on a web server? Obviously, executable scripts/files that make up a web application, called from a web browser can be stored there. But is there a common industry opinion about…
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My cgi script can't write to cgi-bin folder of Apache

I m working on a python version cgi script which needs to create img files (which will be shown on the web page) in cgi-bin folder. But it fails with: [Wed Oct 28 16:13:51 2009] [error] [client ::1] OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:…
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Is it possible to deploy a python script to /cgi-bin/ on a heroku cedar stack alongside my ruby on rails application?

Right now I deploy a RoR app to passenger + apache2, and because of a legacy requirement I use a python .cgi script in the apache /cgi-bin/. Is it possible to deploy a rails app to heroku with scripts in a /cgi-bin/? Thanks!
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Redirect url just printing to screen - python

I wrote a simple python script to redirect a url once an advertisement is clicked on. The url associated with the advertisement is http://server.example.com/redirect.py. The code for redirect.py is shown below: import cgi import…
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cgi-bin 403 forbidden on apache2

I'm trying to load cgi-bin and I keep getting 403 permissions errors. When I tried to load cgi-bin/index.pl I get 404 page not found. Project permissions are set with chmod -R 755. The server is running debian squeeze, apache2, with php5-cgi. This…
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Why can't I execute another python script using the subprocess module via a webserver

Having a problem envoking another script, by the way it works fine from the console when I just call python main.py (which then calls test3.py) but when I do it via the webserver it gives the error below which is cryptic I can't call this (test3 is…
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