In this post I am do some CGI testing with some scripts. This is done in a Linux x86-64 bit environment.


Steps:


1- edit the web.xml file in $CATALINA_HOME/conf directory. Mine is
/home/oracle/tomcat7023/conf. I added the "passShellEnvironment" environment line  in the A section below.




   A- 
  <servlet>
        <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
          <param-name>debug</param-name>
          <param-value>0</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
          <param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name>
          <param-value>WEB-INF/cgi</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <param-name>passShellEnvironment</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
         <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>








   B- 
   <!-- The mapping for the CGI Gateway servlet -->


    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/cgi-bin/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>




2- Now edit the context.xml also in $CATALINA_HOME/conf as:


At the beginning of the context


<Context privileged="true">




3- mkdir $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/cgi


4- copy all your cgi stuff into abpve directory. Mine looks like:


total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle dba 4096 Dec  9 09:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle dba 4096 Dec  7 11:19 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle dba  470 Dec  9 09:51 ml1.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle dba  622 Dec  7 12:28 ml.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle dba  470 Dec  7 12:14 m.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba  451 Dec  9 09:58 m.sql
-rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle dba   78 Dec  7 11:21 test.cgi






5- Restart the tomcat. Make sure that it completely goes down by ps -ef and netstat -an .


6- Test the scripts. Below are the screen shots

Scripts are pasted here -   http://bit.ly/rV0j07


Hope this Helps ..