http with cgi

walter harms WHarms at bfs.de
Mon Mar 10 16:07:24 UTC 2008


there is nothing special about CGI and busybox HTTPD
you need to have your cgi-script in
/<BASEDIR>/cgi-bin/

thats it,

re,
 wh


Inuk You wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I apologize for the prior mail (hard to read it).
> Please delete it (same title with youinuk at empal.com) if possible.
> 
> I'd like to run some script with cgi in server accessing from client.
> i.e.
> (in server)
> 1) write a cgi script in /www/cgi-bin
> e.g.
> #!/bin/sh
> # test.cgi
> echo "run a program!" > /dev/console
> 
> 2) run httpd
> (in client)
> 
> 3) access to server through the browser or something
> e.g.
> http://x.x.x.x/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> 
> I'm a newbie in Busybox.
> There are only binaries (httpd, inetd, etc) in Busybox httpd
> so I've no idea how to start (how to configure, which files to need more, 
> and so on).
> Could you let me know what to do after installing busybox httpd?
> or good references or sites?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> P.S.
> In order to these, what I did is:
> (in server)
> - install the busybox (built with httpd).
> - write httpd.conf and inetd.conf in /etc.
> (document root is /www)
> - mkdir /www/cgi-bin and write a test script in that.
> - run httpd.
> (in client)
> - http://x.x.x.x/cgi-bin/test.cgi by I.E.
> Of course, it doesn't work.
> 
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