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Robert Mark Bram wrote:

> I have Apache and Cygwin. I would like to run bash scripts from Apache, b=
ut am
> unsure as to how to do it. Do I need to configure Apache for this at all?
>=20
> 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 trie=
d:
>=20
> #!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 "=3D=3Dtest=3D=3D"
> echo "</body>"
> echo "</html>"
>=20
> 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 configur=
ed to
run scripts in the directory you used?

> Could this be something to do with line endings? Do I have to specify som=
e 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.
--=20
Ren=E9 Berber


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