It would help to show some code and the exact error message (by all means s/real_username/username/ s/real_password/password/ s/real_ip/x.x.x.x/ etc). The actual error message in all its exacting detail is typically relevant. Do you actually get '***', .... ? When a script runs on the command line (as user you presumbably, IP ? localhost) you need to understand that under CGI it probably runs as user ? apache ? nobody, IP ? real_ip. In other words the environment is different. It seems as though you are connecting to a remote DB which will have in it a remote access perms table that might look like:

user          perms
you@somewhere *
you@%         *
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That's fine when you try to connect but not so good when apache@perhaps_some_other_ip tries to connect. If that is not the problem you also possibly have a firewall between you and the remote DB. DBs connect on unusual ports, and you can punch holes through firewalls on a global or per user basis.....

cheers

tachyon

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Hi,

Here's some code below:


#!c:\Perl\bin\perl.exe

use strict;

use DBI;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser set_message);
set_message("There has been a problem submitting this form. Please con
+tact the Reception desk.");
$CGI::POST_MAX=1024 * 100; # max 100k posts
$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1; # no uploads allowed
use Data::Dumper;

my $user='foo';
my $pwd='bar';

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:ODBC:Oracle7', $user, $pwd, { RaiseError =
+> 1 }) or die "Failed to connect to $DBI::errstr\n";

my $sql = "insert into users (surname,forename,title,nationality,dob,g
+ender,email,status,created,created_by)
values
('Smith','Fred','Mr','UK','27031972','m','f.smith\@hotmail.com','Frien
+ds',SYSDATE,'SelfReg')";

print "SQL is [$sql]\n";

my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) || do {
    die "Failed to prepare\n" };

$sth->execute;


$sth->finish;

$dbh->disconnect;
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The error message from the log is:

c:\PROGRA~1\APACHE~1\apache\cgi-bin\TEST_I~1.CGI: DBI connect('Oracle7
+','foo',...) failed:  at c:\PROGRA~1\APACHE~1\apache\cgi-bin\TEST_I~1
+.CGI line 18
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The failure is at the connect().

How can I test to see if it's a port/connection problem that's causing it?
Many thanks,
Mike