Enabling CGI

Sun Java System Web Server provides two ways to identify CGI programs, which are listed below and described in this section:

• Specifying CGI Directories

• Specifying CGI File Extensions

Specifying CGI Directories

To specify directories that contain CGI programs (and only CGI programs) use the CGI Directory page in the Programs tab of the Class Manager. The server treats all files in these directories as CGI programs.

For each CGI directory, the file obj.conf contains a NameTrans directive that associates the name cgi with each request for a resource in that directory. These directives are automatically added to obj.conf when you specify CGI directories in the Class Manager interface, or you can manually add them to obj.conf if desired.

For example, the following instruction interprets all requests for resources in http://server-name/cgi-local as requests to invoke CGI programs in the directory C:/Sun/Servers/docs/mycgi:

NameTrans fn="pfx2dir" from="/cgi-local" dir="C:/Sun/Servers/docs/mycgi" name="cgi"

The obj.conf file must contain the following named object:

<Object name="cgi">
ObjectType fn="force-type" type="magnus-internal/cgi"
Service fn="send-cgi"
</Object>

Do not remove this object from obj.conf. If you do, the server will not recognize CGI directories, regardless of whether you specify them in the Class Manager interface or manually add more NameTrans directives to obj.conf.

Specifying CGI File Extensions

Use the CGI File Type page in the Programs tab of the Class Manager to instruct the server to treat all files with certain extensions as CGI programs, regardless of which directory they reside in. The default CGI extensions are .cgi, .bat, and.exe.

To change which extensions indicate CGI programs, modify the following line in the mime.types file to specify the desired extensions. Be sure to restart the server after editing mime.types.

type=magnus-internal/cgi exts=cgi,exe,bat

When the server is enabled to treat all files with appropriate extensions as CGI programs, the obj.conf file contains the following Service directive:

Service fn="send-cgi" type="magnus-internal/cgi"