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Re: running cygwin bash scripts from apache
- From: René Berber <r dot berber at computer dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:56:55 -0500
- Subject: Re: running cygwin bash scripts from apache
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Robert Mark Bram wrote:
> I have Apache and Cygwin. I would like to run bash scripts from Apache, but am
> unsure as to how to do it. Do I need to configure Apache for this at all?
>
> I have seen some posts on the newsgroups that suggest I just need to have a
> script that references bash through the shebang line. This is what I tried:
>
> #!C:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe
Have you tried posix paths? i.e.
#!/bin/bash
> echo -e "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
> echo "<html>"
> echo "<body>"
> echo "==test=="
> echo "</body>"
> echo "</html>"
>
> All I get is the whole script displayed in my browser.
Did you put the script in Apache's cgi-bin directory? or is Apache configured to
run scripts in the directory you used?
> Could this be something to do with line endings? Do I have to specify some other
> path for bash or configure Apach somehow?
The above, no. But you'll have those problems too unless you use something like:
echo -e "whatever\r\n"
> Any advice would be most appreciated!
Look at the samples that Apache installs (in its cgi-bin directory), I think
there is one shell script, one perl script and maybe other.
--
René Berber
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