CGI Servlet environmental variables

[Lisa Soto <ls...@bnl.gov>]

Hi, 

I've read through the documentation, and searched the archives and can't
find a solution to my problem. 

We have apache2 with tomcat 4.1.27. When I was using mod_jk, we could
uses aliases under apache with no problems, even with the ROOT of tomcat
mounted on the / of apache. 

With JK2, this is not the case, so we're moving content into the tomcat
containers. 

The hardest problem is the cgi-bin. I got the CGI Servlet working after
some work, and the scripts execute. But I need for Tomcat to pass a
variable for "DOCUMENT_ROOT" to the perl scripts in the cgi-bin that use
it. Dumping the variables, I can see that it's not doing this. 

Is there some way to make this variable available to the perl scripts,
even if I have to set it manually in the environment? 

This spans several scripts, so we'd want to set it globally for the
server. 

Thanks,
Lisa
-- 
Lisa Soto
lsoto@bnl.gov
(631) 344-2009
Systems Administrator
ITD Unix Services


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RE: CGI Servlet environmental variables

[Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>]

A couple of options:

1. Any query parameter or POSTed parameter should be passed to the CGI script on
the command line in the form perl arg1=value1 arg2=value2 etc
2. The latest CGI script from CVS (the one in 4.1.31 contains a JDK 1.4
dependency) supports passing enviroment parameters to the CGI script.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa Soto [mailto:lsoto@bnl.gov] 
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 11:42 PM
> To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: CGI Servlet environmental variables
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I've read through the documentation, and searched the 
> archives and can't
> find a solution to my problem. 
> 
> We have apache2 with tomcat 4.1.27. When I was using mod_jk, we could
> uses aliases under apache with no problems, even with the 
> ROOT of tomcat
> mounted on the / of apache. 
> 
> With JK2, this is not the case, so we're moving content into 
> the tomcat
> containers. 
> 
> The hardest problem is the cgi-bin. I got the CGI Servlet 
> working after
> some work, and the scripts execute. But I need for Tomcat to pass a
> variable for "DOCUMENT_ROOT" to the perl scripts in the 
> cgi-bin that use
> it. Dumping the variables, I can see that it's not doing this. 
> 
> Is there some way to make this variable available to the perl scripts,
> even if I have to set it manually in the environment? 
> 
> This spans several scripts, so we'd want to set it globally for the
> server. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Lisa
> -- 
> Lisa Soto
> lsoto@bnl.gov
> (631) 344-2009
> Systems Administrator
> ITD Unix Services
> 
> 
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