[hobbit] CGI script errors / browser attempts to download file

[Josh Luthman]

Necessary Apache configuration can be found as such:

[shire at frodo etc]$ locate hobbit-apache.conf
/home/shire/server/etc/hobbit-apache.conf

Josh

On 10/5/07, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote:
>
> This is a problem with your Web server setup.  It needs to be configured
> to properly handle each file type.  Check the Hobbit documentation (tips
> and tricks? Installation? I forget where) for the bit about how to set
> up your Web server.
>
> If you have Apache, then Apache needs to know that <whatever>.cgi is a
> CGI, etc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McIlrath, Paul [mailto:pmcilrath at marketron.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 1:26 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] CGI script errors / browser attempts to download file
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks everyone for your recommendations on my first noob post. They
> really helped.
>
> I decided to create a new thread for this problem.
> "
> http://<MYSERVERNAME>/hobbit/bb.html is working normally and brings me
> up to the normal "Main View" screen.  The "All Non-Green" screen works
> as well. But everything else....and I mean everything else....my browser
> tries to download a file rather than run the cgi script to generate the
> new page/report.
>
> I checked and made sure my hobbit-server.cgi file points at the
> /usr/libexec/hobbit/cgi-bin directory, and I also made sure that my
> http.conf file points at the right cgi-bin for hobbit-cgi and cgi-secure
> for hobbit-seccgi.    Im stumped!
>
> Has anyone seen this behaviour before?
>
> Paul
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