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20 years ago

CGI problems with Sh and Boa

My CGI get request is not working. Following the information on the form I used the shell script with the echo command to test the server side. 1. test.cgi will only run on th...
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20 years ago

AFAIK, the webserver in busybox needs to be run in a directory with cgi-bin in the path. As for the boa configuration, I'm not certain. I am sure it is documented properly.

This si what in my nios2 configuration (running C programs): 

Port 80
User root
Group root
ServerName www.board.com
DocumentRoot /home/webserver/
DirectoryIndex index.html
KeepAliveMax 1000
KeepAliveTimeout 10
MimeTypes /etc/mime.types
DefaultType text/plain
CGIPath /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/webserver/cgi-bin/

Check that /bin/ is in your CGIPath. I don't think that boa requires a certain extension to be a valid cgi script.