This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: running cygwin bash scripts from apache


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


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]