Hi,
I am working on executing Perl Scrtipts(or CGI programs) in Tomcat Server.
I have downloaded ActivePerl 5.8.0 6.0.3 build.I have modified some .jar files in tomcat\server\lib.
I have changed conf\web.xml to access the CGIServlet.class that is in servlets-cgi.jar.
My example.cgi is
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#!c:\Perl\bin\perl.exe
print
"Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
foreach $var (
sort keys %ENV) {
print
"$var=\"$ENV{$var}\"\n";
}
@values = split(
/&/,$ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});
foreach $i (@values) {
($varname, $mydata) = split(
/=/,$i);
print "$varname = $mydata\n";
}
and my test.html is
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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Environment Variables using GET</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM ACTION="cgi-bin/example.cgi" METHOD="POST">
Press submit for a list of environment variables. <BR>
First Name: <input type="text" name="fname" size=30><p>
Last Name: <input type="text" name="lname" size=30><p>
<input type="submit">
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
here I have changed url mapping in web.xml to cgi-bin.
The test.html produces two text fields first and last name on submit:
it accesses:http://localhost:8080/smalltownpapers/cgi-bin/example.cgi?fname=Tim&lname=Eden
this should print some environmental variables but it is producing an empty page.
Tomcat is not showing any errors or Tomcat is not at all listening.
Can any one help me to solve this and how to execute Perl scripts in Tomcat server
Thanks,
Regards
Murthy