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/
