Configuring Tomcat to use CGI

[Marc Chamberlin <ma...@easystreet.com>]

Hello - I am trying to install Bugzilla on a Linux machine using Tomcat4.1 as the server, and cannot figure out how to get the CGI servlet running. Under the webapps directory I created a directory called bugzilla, under that a directory called WEB-INF, and in there I created a basic web.xml file and a cgi directory. In this cgi directory I placed all the .cgi files (and other files) from the Bugzilla installation. (I am not sure what I should put in this web.xml file....)

As per the CGI instructions for Tomcat, I removed the comments around the CGI servlet and mapping sections in the web.xml file (in the conf directory), and changed the name of the servlets-cgi.renametojar file to servlets-cgi.jar.

When I try to reach the URL - www.mydomain.com/bugzilla/cgi-bin/index.cgi I am getting the following error -

HTTP Status 503 - Servlet cgi is currently unavailable

Any ideas or help will be much appreciated, I have tried different ideas myself as to how to organize the directories, and config files, but so far cannot get past this error....

     Marc Chamberlin



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