Re: [cgiwrap-users] how to customize cgiwrap environment?

[Adam O. S. <vo...@te...>]

There are two ways to deal with this.

I usually only use <cgiwrap> on other people's servers. On my own machines,
I run <cgwarp> another open-source wrapper that I wrote myself who's special
feature is a file in the HOME directory called ".cgi-env", which is a CGI
equivalient of ".bash_profile".

But I'm not suggesting you abandon <cgiwrap> for <cgwarp>. After all,
<cgiwrap> has been tested and scrutinized by many people, and <cgwarp>
has been tested and scrutinized by very few. So here comes suggestion
#2: I could put together a script for you that emulates <cgwarp> from
*within* <cgiwrap>. I would do this by adapting the scripts that I use
*myself* on other people's servers where <cgiwrap> or <SuExec> is the
User-ID setter.


If your <cgiwrap> CGI-bin is at the following URL:
  http://yourhost.yourdomain/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/yourid

Then the CGI-bin that emulates <cgwarp> would be:
  http://yourhost.yourdomain/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/yourid/exc

Using this emulation script, you can have the best of both worlds:
On one hand, your basis of user-ID setting is based on the more
thoroughly tested <cgiwrap>: and on the other hand, you'd have
an CGI-bin that recognizes an env-customization script (".cgi-env").




gk wrote:

> I have just installed cgiwrap-3.7.1 on linux server.
> I am trying to use it to run a script which requires a variable 
> XMLMAKE_HOME be set in the environment.
> Apparently, cgiwrap does not read $HOME/.bash_profile
> Is there any way to fix this, short of adding the environmental 
> variable to the root user's environment?
> Thanks,
>
> - Greg Keraunen
>
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