[Nms-cgi-devel] Re: [Nms-cgi-support] Random Image Displayer Documentation ...

[Jason L. <jr...@ow...>]

Olivier,

Thanks for following up on this.

Also, I wanted to point out a potential problem with the SSI Random Image
Displayer documentation. In the "INSTALLATION" section, the HTML executable
code suggests that you can call this script remotely (or locally) by simply
putting in an absolute URL. I've just attempted this with two physically
separate servers with different Linux/Apache configurations -- calling the
script in one server's cgi-bin from an HTML page on the other server, and
vice versa -- without success. I always get the "[an error occurred while
processing this directive]" message.

In fact, I couldn't even get it to work after trying to execute the script
on the SAME server using the URL method ... on BOTH servers. But as soon as
I replaced this (example) code ...

<!--#exec cgi="http://your.host.com/cgi-bin/ssi_rand_image.pl"-->

... with this (example) code ...

<!--#exec cgi="/server/path/to/cgi-bin/ssi_rand_image.pl"-->

... the script worked fine on both servers. My only conclusion is that a
relative system path is required in the HTML executable, rather than a URL.

Am I missing something here, or are cgi-bin directories typically supposed
to allow remote calls when SSI is involved ... and these particular two
servers are an exception to the rule?

Jason

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