I have Tomcat 7.0.26 installed on one of the Linux boxes which has perl v5.8.8 installed on it. I followed the same steps except install perl as it was already done…but still the script did not run…getting “HTTP Status 404 – Servlet cgi is not available”. I have two files one is .html in which the form action runs the cgi script. Both are kept in same folder. URL: http://servername:8080/hotel/hotel_post.html Please help!! Thanks!

below is the web.xml on the server. 
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</servle
+t-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>
        <init-param>
         <param-name>passShellEnvironment</param-name>
         <param-value>true</param-value>
        </init-param>
         <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

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

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Folks please check my scratchpad for the html and the cgi files. Thanks!

In reply to Not able to run CGI scripts on Tomcat 7.0.26 by neelesh86

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