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jbossweb

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Using cgi with jbossweb:

To use cgi check that you have $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jbossweb.sar/servlets-cgi.jar

If not you have to copy the TC (5.5.17) servlets-cgi.renametojar to $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy/jbossweb.sar/servlets-cgi.jar.

Then you have to modify server/default/deploy/jbossweb.sar/conf/web.xml to uncomment the cgi parameters:

<servlet>
<servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</servlet-class>

<init-param>
<param-name>debug</param-name>
<param-value>6</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name>
<param-value>WEB-INF/cgi</param-value>
</init-param>

<load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

and the mapping:

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/cgi-bin/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Make sure you copy you cgi executables at the right place: server/default/deploy/jbossweb.sar/ROOT.war/WEB-INF/cgi in the above example.

Remeber cgi could be very insafe and uses a process to run that often forks the JVM before executing the script.