Have you tried closing the tag?
FYI. The problem was already solved.
Topic: Simple CGI Question? (Read 7977 times)
FYI. The problem was already solved.
Have you tried closing the tag?
Do the server logs say anything useful?
I failed debugging 101 somewhere. The error log did indeed give me useful information.What happened:
The bitcoind client when run acts as an RPC client and connects to the already running instance of bitcoind to get its data(I did not know that). Also, the default apache configuration uses / as its home directory not the same directory the bitcoind client uses to store the bitcoin.conf file. When bitcoind was run with a command switch from the CGI it was looking in the home directory of the user it was run from(the webserver) for bitcoin.conf and not from the home directory of the user bitcoind was running as.
Fixes:
1) Have bitcoind and the webserver run as the same user so they share the same configuration directory
2) Create a link between the bitcoin.conf from the home directories of the users(webserver and bitcoind user)
3) Create a duplicate configuration file for both users.
Thanks for the help everyone!
right permissions?
Permissions are correct. Owner and group are the webserver and for testing purposes it is 777. check the return values from the open. is it NULL?
Do the server logs say anything useful?
Content-type: text/html\r\n ?
(or maybe it's Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n, it's really fussy, and I forget.)
The recommendation is a double line break of \n\n.(or maybe it's Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n, it's really fussy, and I forget.)
http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset
I still can't figure this out :-(... anyone? It should be really simple. I even tried piping the output to a text file and it will not output correctly when run through CGI. I'm using Apache 2.2 if that helps anyone.
Content-type: text/html\r\n ?
(or maybe it's Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n, it's really fussy, and I forget.)
(or maybe it's Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n, it's really fussy, and I forget.)
right permissions?
Permissions are correct. Owner and group are the webserver and for testing purposes it is 777. FILE* output = popen("/var/www/bitcoind.cgi getblockcount", "r");
Seems like an incorrect execution string.
right permissions?
FILE* output = popen("/var/www/bitcoind.cgi getblockcount", "r");
Seems like an incorrect execution string.
Hello,
I'm having a little trouble parsing and displaying the output from the bitcoind client in the browser from a CGI program written in C.
#include
main()
{
/* Always print a content type and a blank line. */
printf("Content-Type: text/html\n\n");
/* HTML Page Start */
puts("");
puts("");
puts("");<br /><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>puts(" ");
puts("");
int entry = 1;
char line[200];
FILE* output = popen("/var/www/bitcoind.cgi getblockcount", "r");
while ( fgets(line, 199, output) )
{
printf("%5d: %s", entry++, line);
}
puts("");
puts("");
return 0;
}
Is producing only the following HTML code through the cgi interface:
<br />
The command line output when run in a terminal is(which is correct):
<br />
1: 75029
Any ideas? I know I'm missing something simple.
I'm having a little trouble parsing and displaying the output from the bitcoind client in the browser from a CGI program written in C.
Code:
#include
main()
{
/* Always print a content type and a blank line. */
printf("Content-Type: text/html\n\n");
/* HTML Page Start */
puts("");
puts("");
puts("
puts("");
int entry = 1;
char line[200];
FILE* output = popen("/var/www/bitcoind.cgi getblockcount", "r");
while ( fgets(line, 199, output) )
{
printf("%5d: %s", entry++, line);
}
puts("");
puts("");
return 0;
}
Is producing only the following HTML code through the cgi interface:
Code:
The command line output when run in a terminal is(which is correct):
Code:
1: 75029
Any ideas? I know I'm missing something simple.
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