Re: cgi stuff

[John Kelly Robison <robison serv zusas uni-halle de>]

thanks for the info.  I've installed both simpleparse and SSI, though I had an error message when I
ran install test on SSI.  It's here below.  The counter still doesn't work.

[root serv Apache-SSI-2.11]# make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/
sparc-linux -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 -e 'use Test::Harness qw(&runtests $verbose
); $verbose=0; runtests @ARGV;' t/*.t
t/fake..............ok
t/real..............Can't locate LWP/UserAgent.pm in @INC (@INC contains: blib/a
rch blib/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/sparc-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/sparc-lin
ux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/sparc-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 /usr/lib/perl5/5.00
503/sparc-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/sparc-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 /usr/l
ib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sparc-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sparc-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 . /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/sparc-linux /usr/lib/per
l5/5.00503 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sparc-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5
.005 .) at real.t line 37.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at real.t line 37.
dubious
        Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
Undefined subroutine &Test::Harness::WCOREDUMP called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/
Test/Harness.pm line 288.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 2


identity wrote:

> > The text counter is supposed to run from this line in the web page:
> > <!--#exec cgi="cgi-bin/counter.cgi"-->, but doesn't.  Anyone have any
> > advice?
>
> the problem is that apache doesn't understand SSI. <!--#exec
> cgi="cgi-bin/counter.cgi"--> is an SSI command. I've included the needed
> files to make SSI work.
> first install HTML-SimpleParse, then Apache-SSI by typing
>
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make test
> make install
>
> afterwards you've got to change some things in your httpd.conf:
> add these lines:
>
>     AddType text/html .shtml
>     AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
>
> or if you don't want to use shtml extensions just add this line
>
>     AddHandler server-parsed .html
>
> I see that you already have this line
>
> Options ExecCgi Includes Indexes
>
> So you don't have to add
>
> Options Includes
>
> If you've done all this, your counter should work.
>
> > The form cgi has a slightly different probelm.  It seems to be running
> > correctly, but does not email the recipient.  One line in teh script
> > calls for the mail program on the server.  Our web server is also set up
> > as the email server (which works), but the recipient never gets the
> > email.  The mail program is sendmail.cf, right?  Or am I completely
> > off-base with this?
>
> You're right. Sendmail is the used program. But I don't know how to use it.
> Sorry
>
> Hope this helps
>
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