Basic CGI question

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I'm trying to learn how to run a cgi script. I saved the following script as hello.cgi in htdocs.

#!/usr/bin/env python
print "Content-Type: text/html"
print
print """\
<html>
<body>
<h2>Hello World!</h2>
</body>
</html>
"""

Then I then saved a test.html file with just the line:

<!--#include virtual="hello.cgi"-->

in the same folder. I uploaded both of these files in text format. I logged into my account using ssh and ran the following line:

chmod 644 hello.cgi

However when I went to test.html with my browser, I got an Internal Server Error message and am not sure how to proceed.

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Hi,

First of all, the permissions should be set to 755, so the script is executable. If you still have issues after fixing this, please check out our docs on solving this kind of errors.

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answered 30 Sep '11, 05:48

todork
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Hi todork. Thanks - I changed the permissions to 755. I am a bit confused about the file paths though. This file is in /apache/htdocs/ - if I am calling it from a webpage does the webpage need to be in the same location (/apache/htdocs/) also?

(30 Sep '11, 06:02) womble

Not necessarily - you can call it using a relative or an absolute path. If you are having issues with such matters, it would be best to open a ticket though.

(30 Sep '11, 06:08) todork

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