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Cherokee, CGI and Bash script, 500 error

Nov 21, 2011, 12:15 PM

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Hi folks. I'm new to Cherokee, running it on a Linksys NSLU2 "slug".

I'm trying to get a shell script to run via CGI from Cherokee, but I'm
getting a "500 Internal Server Error". Could anyone help me troubleshoot?

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My Bash script is:

#!/bin/sh
echo "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
echo "<html><head><title>First CGI page!</title></head>"
echo "<body>
Hello World
</body></html>"
'-------------------------------

Web root is: /opt/share/www/cherokee
Cgi-bin is: /opt/share/cherokee/cgi-bin

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Re: Cherokee, CGI and Bash script, 500 error [ In reply to ]

lists at dan

Nov 22, 2011, 12:15 AM

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Anything in the error log? Are you sure the script is executable for
everyone (chmod a+x whatever.sh)

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:15 AM, JK <mail@jonathankerr.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi folks. I'm new to Cherokee, running it on a Linksys NSLU2 "slug".
>
> I'm trying to get a shell script to run via CGI from Cherokee, but I'm
> getting a "500 Internal Server Error". Could anyone help me troubleshoot?
>
> -------------------------------
> My Bash script is:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
> echo "<html><head><title>First CGI page!</title></head>"
> echo "<body>
> Hello World
> </body></html>"
> '-------------------------------
>
> Web root is: /opt/share/www/cherokee
> Cgi-bin is: /opt/share/cherokee/cgi-bin
>
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Re: Cherokee, CGI and Bash script, 500 error [ In reply to ]

mail at jonathankerr

Nov 22, 2011, 12:07 PM

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I modified the script to 755 permissions (there were some errors in the log
before I made it executable) but they're not appearing any more...

This is what I got before changing the permissions...

[20/11/2011 21:38:31.664] (error) handler_cgi.c:640 - Could not execute
'/opt/share/cherokee/cgi-bin/': Permission denied | The issue seems to
be
related to your system.

The only logs I can see are cherokee.access and cherokee.error.... Can I set
verbose logging anywhere?

Thanks again.

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Re: Cherokee, CGI and Bash script, 500 error [ In reply to ]

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Nov 23, 2011, 10:06 AM

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Found the solution... not sure why it's needed for Bash in particular.

Instead of...

> echo "Content-type: text/html"
> echo ""
>
I used...

> echo "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
>

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Re: Cherokee, CGI and Bash script, 500 error [ In reply to ]

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Nov 23, 2011, 10:08 AM

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Sorry!! Other way round...

using this solved it:

> echo "Content-type: text/html"
> echo " "
>

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