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[qmailadmin-devel] qmailadmin's CGI quirks

[Kacper W. <ka...@on...>]

Hi folks,
I'm trying to set up qmailadmin on nginx,
or any lightweight web server for that matter.

I'm running qmailadmin 1.2.12, and although I always have to log in
twice for some reason, I can get in to the main menu page.

Trouble is, qmailadmin is not a typical CGI program in that it
generates URLs of the form

http://domain.com/cgi-bin/qmailadmin/com/showusers?user=postmaster&dom=domain.com&time=1220315583

- note the /com/ part which I don't know how to map up to a query
string qmailadmin understands, though I'm guessing apache does some
magic to get this right.
normal cgi servers think /com/showusers is a file in a subfolder of qmailadmin/

What is qmailadmin doing with the query string?
How do I get some basic debug messages or logging going to see what
qmailadmin is doing?

Thanks,
 -Kacper

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Re: [qmailadmin-devel] qmailadmin's CGI quirks

[Matt B. <ma...@in...>]

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Kacper Wysocki wrote:
> Trouble is, qmailadmin is not a typical CGI program in that it
> generates URLs of the form
> 
> http://domain.com/cgi-bin/qmailadmin/com/showusers?user=postmaster&dom=domain.com&time=1220315583

Actually, this is quite typical of a CGI.

> - note the /com/ part which I don't know how to map up to a query
> string qmailadmin understands, though I'm guessing apache does some
> magic to get this right.
> normal cgi servers think /com/showusers is a file in a subfolder of qmailadmin/

qmailadmin is using path environment variables provided by the web server to resolve
the request.  This is totally normal.

> What is qmailadmin doing with the query string?
> How do I get some basic debug messages or logging going to see what
> qmailadmin is doing?

I would suggest you learn a bit about how the CGI interface works before
attempting to debug a CGI.  There should be plenty of resources available
online.
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Re: [qmailadmin-devel] qmailadmin's CGI quirks

[Kacper W. <ka...@on...>]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Matt Brookings <ma...@in...> wrote:
> Kacper Wysocki wrote:
>> What is qmailadmin doing with the query string?
>> How do I get some basic debug messages or logging going to see what
>> qmailadmin is doing?
>
> I would suggest you learn a bit about how the CGI interface works before
> attempting to debug a CGI.  There should be plenty of resources available
> online.

Indeed. I finally tracked the problems I was seeing down to that
horrible fcgi-spawncgi script I was using & nginx not passing the
PATH_INFO variable.

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