Re: [mv] Newbie having install probs

[Sergio Polini <s.polini@mclink.it>]

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"S. Salter" wrote:
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> >You should start over. Do not install mvend/ in your cgi-dir or htdocs
> >directory; install it somewhere above those.  Ditto for catalogs/.  Your
> >current configuration is not likely to be secure.  In any case, this link
> 
> Ok, don't understand why not but I can install in in another /home
> directory.
> I'll just start over.

What you install in your htdocs directory is world readable.
I was able to read all of your Minivend installation, all of your CGI scripts
:-)
Try, for example, http://www.tisbook.com/tools/.

>but, the "Enter" link on that page is defined as:
>http://www.tisbook/com/tools/simple/index.html
>
>that doesn't exist.
>What didn't I define properly?

No problem here.

The URL http://www.tisbook.com/simple makes your webserver to send your browser
the page <DocumentRoot>/simple/index.html, since you have "DirectoryIndex
index.html" in your httpd.conf. (This is my guess: I couldn't read that file :-)

In /htdocs/simple/index.html there is a link to
http://www.tisbook/com/tools/simple/index.html. Since /tools is your CGI
directory, "simple" is interpreted as the name of a program to execute; the
following "/index.html" is passed to it.

Try, for example, http://www.tisbook/tools/printenv.cgi/index.html. You'll see:

SCRIPT_FILENAME = /usr/local/www/htdocs/tools/printenv.cgi
PATH_INFO = /index.html
REQUEST_URI = /tools/printenv.cgi/index.html
etc.

So the "simple" program can pass "index.html" to minivend, and it displays the
page "/catalogs/simple/pages/index.html". That is its job :-)

HTH

Sergio

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