including a CGI file

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

This might be more HTML related but it is a problem with CGI and I know you people know.

I have a contact.html file which is calling contact.cgi with

<!--#include file="cgi-bin/contact.cgi"-->
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but it's not loading. When I view the source code I see that line literally sitting there. The whole include line is there.

What could be the problem?

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Re: including a CGI file by bibo (Pilgrim) on Oct 10, 2004 at 04:19 UTC
The mechanism which you are attempting to use may be disabled in your web server. Here's a link for doing so with apache http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html --bibo	[reply]
Re: including a CGI file by tachyon (Chancellor) on Oct 10, 2004 at 04:32 UTC
The virtual variable is used to specify a file path/name relative to the base directory of the HTTP server. The file variable is used to specify a file path/name relative to the directory of the current document. `file="cgi-bin/contact.cgi"` is relative to the directory of the current document, so if you are at http://domain.com/path/doc.htm then this will effectively be /path/cgi-bin/contact.cgi. I think you want `<!--#include virtual="cgi-bin/contact.cgi"-->` so you get /cgi-bin/contact.cgi Alternatively you may need `<!--#exec cgi="some_cgi" -->` to get it to work. As already noted SSI needs to be enabled in either a .htaccess file or httpd.conf itself. `# this may work Options +Includes AddHandler server-parsed .html # or this Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes AddType application/x-httpd-cgi .cgi AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: including a CGI file by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Oct 10, 2004 at 04:13 UTC
Are .html files handled by SSI? Usually not. You are probably not working with your httpd configuration correctly. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: including a CGI file by gloryhack (Deacon) on Oct 10, 2004 at 18:01 UTC
See: SSI For The Rest Of us. It's worth a look if you want to get up and running with Server Side Includes quickly.	[reply]