Comments on: Lighttpd Setup CGI-BIG CGI For Perl Programs

By: adipa

adipa — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:43:48 +0000

Sorry, I confused installing setup on cgi-bin folder for powersek program. please help me…
thanks

By: none-101

none-101 — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:08:34 +0000

Does not show how to specify the cgi-bin.

e.g in Apache I have the cgi-bin located elsewhere (on a separate partition)
DocumentRoot /www/admin.example.com/
…….
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www/cgi-bin/admin.example.com/

By: g..

g.. — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:40:46 +0000

It works when I access the perl with a browser on the server with http://localhost/….
However when I try to access the perl with the external IP http://188.61.81.120 it get an 403 Forbidden message.
How could I make it to work also from the outside?

/g..

By: LCN

LCN — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:37:44 +0000

I had this same problem, too. Indeed, the author’s configuration file should replace this entry:

server.document-root = “/home/lighttpd/theos.in/http”

with this one:

server.document-root = “/home/lighttpd/theos.in”

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:49:05 +0000

If you have cgi programs that are written in C how do you set it up? I have a bunch of C based code that is directly executable and I want to be able to execute from the web.

By: john plumridge

john plumridge — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:54:45 +0000

@Nishu
CHeck wher eyour perl distribution is located from in your bash path, if on Unix or Linux:

In terminal: type

$ which perl

Your path might not be usr/bin/perl

By: nishu

nishu — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:35:32 +0000

Hi All,

Need ur help. I m new in this cgi stuff and faling again and again

By: john plumridge

john plumridge — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:51:43 +0000

I have lighttpd running fine with cgi scripts form localhost/cgi-bin.
I would like to use however, cgi scripts from any directory (i.e. globally), a desire which echoes an earlier post. I can’t find informaton on this, and cannot figure it out.
Any ideas?

By: NK

NK — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:47:58 +0000

I just turned ON the debug and noticed that it was trying to run /var/www/html/cgi-bin/test.pl, instead of /var/www/cgi-bin/test.pl. Changing server.document-root = “/var/www/html” to “/var/www” fixed it.

By: NK

NK — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:02:59 +0000

I just installed lightppd on Mandriva Linux 2008, and added following to /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf, and restarted lighttpd:

server.modules += ( “mod_cgi” )
$HTTP["host"] =~ “127.0.0.1″ {
server.document-root = “/var/www/html”
accesslog.filename = “/var/log/lighttpd/access.log”
$HTTP["url"] =~ “/cgi-bin” {
cgi.assign = ( “.pl” => “/usr/bin/perl” )
}
}

/var/www/cgi-bin/test.pl is 755.

Clicking on http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/test.pl gives “404 – Not Found”. Would you happen to know why? /var/log/lighttpd/error.log does not show anything, but /var/log/lighttpd/access.log has an entry:
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 – [02/Aug/2009:13:53:29 -0700] “GET /cgi-bin/test.pl HTTP/1.1″ 404 345 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042315 Firefox/3.0.10″

I have tried replacing 127.0.0.1 with localhost in the line ‘$HTTP["host"] =~ “127.0.0.1″ {‘, but that did not help either.

By: Durand

Durand — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:52:15 +0000

Mostly worked well. In gentoo, I had to add this line to get it to work:
include “mod_cgi.conf”

By: Kilbane

Kilbane — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:02:53 +0000

Really easy and fin tutorial :)
Works fine for me :)

By: Hawk

Hawk — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:09:38 +0000

@nobody and @twit Friendly The “so slow perl” is probably due to your inability to program it properly. The only thing faster then perl is mod_perl! Why don’t you use PHP. It’s a dumbed down version of perl and might be more to your speed.

Can anyone explain why it gives a 500 Internal Server Error?

By: Twitter Friendly

Twitter Friendly — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:03:31 +0000

thank you for the post. nginx has a limited embed implementation as well, alternatively you can wrap cgi for it and run Perl inside.
@nobody for many reasons too numerous to write down here.

By: nobody

nobody — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:19:53 +0000

why using the so fast lighttpd when you are using the so slow perl… in 2009, it’s really pathetic still using perl…

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:48:11 +0000

Thanks Vivek,

The problem has been solved by reading POST data from stdin by cgi script.

Thanks.

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:20:35 +0000

Check for directory permission and set +x permission on your script:
chmod +x script.pl

Also, look at your error log file.

By: Dmitry

Dmitry — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:30:43 +0000

Thank you!

Trying this sample I got 403 Forbidden from lighttpd.

Would you please, explain why?

Thanks again.

By: Amir

Amir — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:34:16 +0000

A life saver!
Thank you.

By: Thomas Martin Klein

Thomas Martin Klein — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:02:20 +0000

Thanks for the info… it works like a charm,