Cgi is the common gateway interface, used for interactive webpages.

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How do I properly disable cgi scripts e.g. guestbook.cgi on WHM

After a PCI scan identified guestbook.cgi as a risk, I want to disable the cgi-scripts installed by WHM (v11, running on CentOS5). I would like to do this "properly" using the WHM Web interface if ...
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Running nph-script.cgi keeps outputting Server details at the end

I am running a nph-script.cgi on my server. The server keeps adding HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:28:53 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.8-1hardy~ppa1 with ...
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Is my apache installation in windows ok? [closed]

I am trying to use Apache2 in Vista. I downloaded it and installed it. I did not install it as a service though. I see in the Start a Start Apache in console new button that seems to work. I.e. when I ...
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Permission denied with mv under apache

I have a bash cgi script called by apache which should move one file in /var/www/html to another in the same directory. I've set up the relevant permissions with selinux (e.g. chcon to ...
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dedicated server - cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi redirect when accessing via server IP

This isn't so much of a problem, but would like to know why this happens. we have a dedicated server running WHM. If I access the server via its IP address directly I am automatically redirected to ...
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Apache - 70007 The timeout specified has expired

I am sporadically getting Apache 70007 timeout errors from (I think) Perl CGI scripts. I thought the problem was my scripts were exceeding the Apache's TimeOut value, but I wrote a sleep script that ...
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Munin graphing by CGI

I have Munin working just fine, but any time I try to do cgi graphing - it just stops graphing... no errors in the log, nothing. I've followed the instructions here: ...
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IIS 7.5 + CGI + SSL - How to increase the upload limit?

I'm hitting a really annoying problem with IIS 7. I've setup my web.config by the books as follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <configuration> <system.webServer> ...
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ps x shows weird command: -f html/index.php

Just went to check one of my websites and was greeted by the message: "CGIWrap Error: Real UID could not be changed!". Went in via SSH and tried "ps x" which showed me tons of processes that that ...
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Awstats over cgi does not show historical data

I have awstats for several virtualhosts, runned via cgi. One of them does not show historical data. It shows just data for this month. But runned on command line generates html with correct data. ...
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Retrieve Windows Username via SSPI + CGI Perl

I need to retrieve the username of the windows user logged in currently when he is accessing my intranet page. I am trying to authenticate my webpage using SSPI(mod_auth_sspi.so) on Windows Server ...
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cgi and python script files are downloading from server instead of executing there

I kept some cgi,python files under /var/www/cgi-bin and trying to execute I followed all the steps in: http://webpython.codepoint.net/cgi_tutorial Still i am not able to execute. when i enter ...
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Nginx + fcgirap + spaw-fcgi + multiwatch madness

I'm trying to setup CGit with Nginx, but for this to work I need to setup fcgi support. According to some google results and Arch's wiki this is possible ( ...
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NGINX and CGit configuration

I?m trying to setup CGit and NGINX. I'm almost there but I have a problem with the rewrite rule in my NGINX's conf file. Currently I have this: server { listen 80; server_name ...
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FCGI and upload_tmp_dir PHP directive are not working correctly

I run PHP as FCGI! I'm setting upload_tmp_dir option as value /home/domain.com/tmp. When executed phpinfo() for double-check it's confirmed that the settings above are correct. Nevertheless, when ...
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Cannot Execute CGI Scripts With Lighttpd, Keep Getting 403

When someone requests http://www.mydomain.com/ I want to run a script called index.pl. I have put it in my root directory (/var/www) and I get 403 errors. I put it in the default /usr/lib/cgi-bin ...
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Set Apache HTTP header except for specified URL

I'm using Apache 2.2 and want to set the X-Frame-Options header to "deny" across most of the site. I can turn it on unconditionally using mod_headers. However, there is one CGI scripts that returns ...
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Where to find the mod_cgi.c script

Where is the mod_cgi.c script, or where are all the modules in the apache software? I have a problem with the RLimitNProc settings on my server, because this settings don't work properly. I've found ...
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Executing CGI Scripts with Apache+SSL

I'm having some problems trying to execute a CGI script through apache. This script is identical to the OpenLayers proxy.cgi which allows to make AJAX requests outside of one's domain. This script ...
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Compile PHP 5.4 as a CGI with cPanel on Centos

I have looked all over and found ways to compile PHP as a cgi/secondary install but no guides show how to compile PHP 5.4 as a cgi to be called in a .htaccess. I want to have a development cgi version ...
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bad interpreter: Text file busy

For ages I've gotten used to editing Perl CGI scripts in "vi" and simultaneously having a browser open to test them. Lately, I've been getting "500" server errors when I do that, and when I run the ...
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“Bad File Descriptor” error using Python/CGI in IIS 6.1

Background: I've attempted (strong emphasis on "attempt") to set up an application via IIS (6.1, Windows Server 2008 R1) that routes all requests through a python script. The end goal was to create ...
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Apache2 server not executing CGI script

I have a local Apache2 server (installed with LAMP). The Apache2 directory is /etc/apache2 and my document root is /var/www. Under the doc root, there's a /cgi-bin directory, in which my script ...
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Windows Apache 2.2 painfully slow executing CGI

I've recently set up Apache 2.2 and git on one of our Windows XP PCs for gitweb access using the setup at https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/MSysGit:GitWeb As noted on the wiki, the only version of ...
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Setup CGI exe in IIS 7 - Will Always Download as .exe file instead of executing

Trying to install a legacy CGI.exe file on a new Windows 2008 R2 server. I added the exe path to the CGI and ISAPI restriction list (it is set to allowed). The handler mapping for the .exe in the ...
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Scaling Python CGI scripts [closed]

I have Apache running on a quad-core Ubuntu server on a 384kbps ADSL. Files are uploaded by users via a web-form and processed by various Python programs running as CGI scripts. Some scripts are CPU ...
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Run CGI in IIS 7 to work with GET without Requiring POST Request

I'm trying to migrate an old CGI application from an existing Windows 2003 server (IIS 6.0) where it works just fine to a new Windows 2008 server with IIS 7.0 where we're getting the following ...
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Mod Rewrite for cgi-bin

So i want to rewrite the following url structure mysite.com/cgi-bin/shop/shop.cgi/ to mysite.com/+ I have this as a rule and it works, but it doesn't force the url to print in the ...
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Server Showing Default CGI page on my VPS hosting

I am getting default cgi [http://xx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi]page even after placing index.php in the root/public_html folder. The Httpd Conf on my VPS have the following entry ...
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perl app on apache and cgi behaves terribly with 504 gateway timeouts

Note: This question is about my server configuration giving 504 timeouts. I made a project here http://www.tryperl.com/ (requires auth with GitHub to sign in). Please be kind, I'm working on to learn ...
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Chrooted nginx, fastcgi, and cgit

I'm running a Debian server with nginx chrooted in /var/chroot/nginx. It works wonderfully, but I'd like to be able to run cgit and host my gitolite repositories. When it was out of the chroot it ...
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How to execute (some) CGI commands as root

I want to put a simple CGI script in my APACHE server. I'd like to write it possibly in C (but also in PERL, if I want). The problem is that it must contain some lines that can be executed only by ...
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deploying perl dancer on apache with a virtual host

Forgive my lack of knowledge I'm just learning linux administration here. A week ago I read this article about setting up virtual hosts, I then installed and setup mod_perl and my perl Catalyst ...
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Forbidden - 403 error Apache

I was setting my local Apache server to run Python cgi, then I came with the following error: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /hw10/main.cgi on this server. What I've changed on my ...
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Python CGI scripts - socket.error - Permission Denied

I have a CGI script in Python and the script is failing when triggered from a browser with below message [Wed Nov 14 18:21:58 2012] [error] [client 192.168.0.150] raise error, msg, referer: ...
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Multiple PHP versions running as cgi

I'm trying to install a second version of PHP, to run alongside the current version of php. I've compiled the latest php source from github (5.5-DEV), and I'm trying to run it as CGI. Here is my ...
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What's the safest way to kick off a root-level process via cgi on an Apache server?

The problem: I have a script that runs periodically via a cron job as root, but I want to give people a way to kick it off asynchronously too, via a webpage. (The script will be written to ensure it ...
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Apache: Run standard-PHP side by side with Fast-CGI

I'd like to run a server that 'delegates' certain requests to a C++-Script via FastCGI - how can I configure Apache to do so? It would just be enough to redirect requests to a specific page I could ...
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Should apache ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ line be removed in production?

Here is the part of my current apache config that refers to cgi-bin stuff. This info was included in the default configuration in debian. Should this be removed on a live/production machine? ...
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getting cgi to work on aws server

I want to execute py/cgi files on my server. I have changed the httpd.conf as below, but the browser says the files don't exist. AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .py LoadModule cgi_module ...
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Centos 6.3 PERL CGI selinux file read access

I have a CGI script called index.cgi It is trying to read a log file called 10.128.0.242.2012.sep.20.downloaded.txt under the path /var/log/trafcount/ It appears that it is being blocked by selinux. ...
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Centos 6.3 PERL CGI selinux file read access

I have a CGI script called index.cgi It is trying to read a log file called 10.128.0.242.2012.sep.20.downloaded.txt under the path /var/log/trafcount/ It appears that it is being blocked by selinux. ...
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iis php internal server error

I developed a website, using php/mysql running at IIS Server as CGI Server API. Suddenly it gives me error 500 after two weeks. It has lot of scripts but index.php home is working. But other script ...
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fcgiwrap (perl) in a shared hosting environment

I have nginx and I use Perl with fcgiwrap/spawn-fcgi (on Debian Squeeze). This works great for me because I am the only user on the server. As I read that is less than ideal situation if I want to ...
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ExecCGI turned off in this directory

I'm trying to run a python cgi script on my Mac's web server. Everytime I visit the file @ localhost/site.py I get a 403 forbidden error. I'm looking in my Apache's error log, and it says: [Mon Jun ...
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How to pass $_GET variables to a PHP script via the command line?

I am trying to create a webserver that serves PHP scripts. Currently, it works as follows: The client requests /index.php?test=value The server invokes php index.php The server feeds the HTTP ...
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Lighttpd send Nagios command-line output instead of web interface

I recently installed Nagios on an EC2 instance running AmazonLinux (which is basically SuSe, to my understanding). I'm using lighttpd and mod_cgi to serve the web interface. When I navigate to a ...
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Webserver Nginx + PHP FPM Access Denied error with .cgi scripts

Webserver with Nginx 1.1.19 and PHP 5 FPM work great with serving PHP and showing output of mysql data. I want to embed nagios in my application and so I needed .cgi scripts for the first time on ...
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Running single Apache Vhost on PHP 5.3 using CGI, other sites use PHP 5.2 on Apache module

I've been trying to setup my development server to serve one of my Apache virtual hosts over CGI using PHP 5.3.14. The Apache server I have setup is Apache 2.2.3 with PHP 5.2.10 running as an Apache ...
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Apache not calling the Smart HTTP CGI

I'm setting up a git server with git-http-backend and Smart HTTP but Apache doesn't seem to be calling the Smart HTTP CGI: $ curl ...

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