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Links 2.01 - jump.cgi not working
click this link to see my problem:

http://www.outdoorns.com/...ctory/jump.cgi?ID=14

was working before switching hosts

any ideas why jump.cgi isn't working?

if more info is needed just let me know

also would be nice if there was a manual for 2.01 floating around somewhere

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Johnny23: Jan 18, 2012, 11:19 AM
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Re: [Johnny23] Links 2.01 - jump.cgi not working In reply to
Hi,

The most likely thing, is that you can't run cgi scripts outside of your cgi-bin. Some hosts will allow you to create a file called .htaccess, which would have something like:

Code:
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

( http://www.gsp.com/...ort/virtual/web/cgi/ )

Failing that, you probably need to move your Links2 installation (the .cgi scripts and the /cgi-bin/admin/ stuff) into your /cgi-bin

Hope that helps

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thanks for the reply Andy

I had to uncomment AddHandler cgi-script .cgi in httpd.conf and made sure the outdoorns.com entry had Options ExecCGI. Now when I click a link I get:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /outdoordirectory/jump.cgi on this server.

I know the permissions are fine for the file/folder, is this because I can't run .cgi scripts outside of my cgi-bin?
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Are your cgi scripts CHMOD 755?

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they are, I even tried changing them to CHMOD 777, no luck
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777 wont work - .cgi / .pl has to be 755 :)

Check the CHMOD on the outdoordirectory directory... that should be 755 too really

Hope that helps

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...also , try am very basic script:

hello.cgi

Code:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

print "Content-Type: text/html \n\n";
print "hello!"

...chmod that to 755 and try running it from your browser.

If that doesn't work, try changing it to hello.pl and doing the same test

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thanks again

outdoordirectory is 755
all .cgi and .pl files in outdoordirectory are 755

still getting the

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /outdoordirectory/jump.cgi on this server.
should I add AddHandler cgi-script .pl to httpd.conf?(no idea if this will help)
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Re: [Johnny23] Links 2.01 - jump.cgi not working In reply to
Mmm ok - its a bit hard to test really. You need to just get that "hello" script working first. I could get it fixed up for you as a paid job, but can't really spend any more time helping you to troubleshoot I'm afraid Angelic

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for both hello.cgi and hello.pl I get the same forbidden message
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Ok, and if you put it in your /cgi-bin and run it fromt here?

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ok, I added

<Directory “/home/outdoorn/www/outdoorns.com/”>
Options +ExecCGI
</Directory>

to httpd.conf and restarted apache

now I'm getting an Internal Server Error, which translates to Premature end of script headers: hello.pl in my error log

the script is what you gave me:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

print "Content-Type: text/html \n\n";
print "hello!"


Also getting the Premature end of script headers: for jump.cgi
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Try running this in telnet/ssh to see where perl is located on your server:

Code:
whereis perl

It could be that you need it as #!/usr/bin/perl or something else

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I'm about to give up

for Premature end of script headers it says to check suexec.log, I check it and even though the cgi-bin folder, the outdoorns.com folder and the hello.pl file are all owned by outdoorn:apache, suexec.log is reporting target uid/gid (508/508) mismatch with directory (508/48) or program (508/48)

this is beyond rediculous
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You probably need to CHOWN them:
Code:
cd /path/to/outdoordirectory
chown -R outdoorn:outdoorn *

This should change ownership to uid/gid as outdoorn

Hope that helps

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that worked, thanks for all your help Andy
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Hi,

Glad to hear it Angelic

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