X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: running cygwin bash scripts from apache Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:56:55 -0500 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: url=hkp://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 "" > echo "" > echo "=3D=3Dtest=3D=3D" > echo "" > echo "" >=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 -- 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/