I assume you mean localhost/search/Search.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by killa_cam
OKay, so "search.py" needs to be in the CGI dir. Try this:Quote:
Code:The requested URL /search/cgi-bin/search.py was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80
and make it executable:Code:sudo cp /var/www/search/search.py /usr/lib/cgi-bin
Code:chmod +x /usr/lib/cgi-bin/search.py
Alright, so I executed the commands and that went fine. Then I tried "localhost/search/Search.html" (And yeah I did mean to say "Search.html") and that also worked.
The problems I ran into were when I tried to use the search engine. It looks like "Search.html" submitted the text to "/search/cgi-bin/search.py" even though it say's <form action="/cgi-bin/search.py" method="POST">
When I searched something I got:
Not Found
The requested URL /search/cgi-bin/search.py was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80
Its also weird how "localhost/cgi-bin/" receives:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this server.
Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80
and localhost/cgi-bin/hello.pl receives:
Hello from /usr/lib/cgi-bin/hello.pl
That is odd. On my Ubuntu box, that same Search.html page sends the form correctly to /cgi-bin/search.py (which is /usr/lib/cgi-bin/search.py). Now the search.py script itself has problems, b/c the browser throws up a 500 Internal Server Error, so the search engine doesn't even work for me, but it does not sound like that is your problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by killa_cam
Is there anything helpful in the apache log?
That is not weird if you are just putting "/cgi-bin/" in the URL bar without specifying an actual CGI script. It is a security method so that people cannot browse your CGI directories at whim.Quote:
Its also weird how "localhost/cgi-bin/" receives:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this server.
Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80
and localhost/cgi-bin/hello.pl receives:
Hello from /usr/lib/cgi-bin/hello.pl
It looks like the Apache2 access log file returned this (below) after requesting localhost/search/cgi-bin/search.py
::1 - - [13/Dec/2012:21:42:36 -0500] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 501 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19"
::1 - - [13/Dec/2012:21:42:38 -0500] "POST /search/cgi-bin/search.py HTTP/1.1" 404 505 "localhost/search/Search.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19"
::1 - - [13/Dec/2012:21:42:39 -0500] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 500 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19"
::1 - - [13/Dec/2012:21:42:47 -0500] "-" 408 0 "-" "-"
::1 - - [13/Dec/2012:21:46:38 -0500] "POST /search/cgi-bin/search.py HTTP/1.1" 404 506 "localhost/search/Search.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19"
::1 - - [13/Dec/2012:21:46:38 -0500] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 500 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19"
::1 - - [13/Dec/2012:21:47:10 -0500] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 501 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19"
::1 - - [13/Dec/2012:21:47:13 -0500] "POST /search/cgi-bin/search.py HTTP/1.1" 404 505 "localhost/search/Search.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19"
::1 - - [13/Dec/2012:21:47:13 -0500] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 500 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19"
::1 - - [13/Dec/2012:21:47:21 -0500] "-" 408 0 "-" "-"
::1 - - [13/Dec/2012:21:50:47 -0500] "POST /search/cgi-bin/search.py HTTP/1.1" 404 506 "localhost/search/Search.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19"
::1 - - [13/Dec/2012:21:50:47 -0500] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 500 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19"
Okay I understand the "/cgi-bin/" thing now
what about the error log? that one might have more helpful info.
Yeah forgot to add that one in. Here's what it returned:
[Thu Dec 13 21:42:26 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.2-1ubuntu4.17 with Suhosin-Patch configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Dec 13 21:42:36 2012] [error] [client ::1] File does not exist: /var/www/favicon.ico
[Thu Dec 13 21:42:38 2012] [error] [client ::1] File does not exist: /var/www/search/cgi-bin, referer localhost/search/Search.html
[Thu Dec 13 21:42:39 2012] [error] [client ::1] File does not exist: /var/www/favicon.ico
Maybe i'm wrong but it looks like its searching for the cgi-bin inside the search folder.
it certainly does. what does this command return?Quote:
Originally Posted by killa_cam
on my box, it returns:Code:grep -i '<form' /var/www/search/Search.html
Code:<form action="/cgi-bin/search.py" method="POST">
Sorry I have not replied in a while, I had some computer problems. I executed the command and received:
<form action="/cgi-bin/search.py" method="POST">