I did get XML from that full URL, among other things I learned that <Prompt
It's not easy being green :-)</Prompt> Now I did a helloworld.cgi that looks like: #!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello World!\n";
and I get an HTTP 500 error [Thu Mar 27 19:57:35 2008] [error] [client 172.16.0.153] malformed header from script. Bad header=Hello World!: hellowworld.cgi [Thu Mar 27 19:57:35 2008] [warn] /perl/hellowworld.cgi did not send an HTTP header
So either my helloworld.cgi is wrong or mod_perl is confused, I think.
Josh
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Charles Jones <jonescr at cisco.com> wrote:
Josh Luthman wrote:
- See if you can telnet from your bb server to port 80 of your phone (in this case 172.16.0.152) -> telnet 172.16.0.152 80 Does this look the same as yours?
Yep
- Make sure that the apache user can execute the bb command (in this case /home/shire/server/bin/bb) -rwxrwxrwx 1 hobbuzer hobbituzer 216177 Nov 23 09:56 bb
More perms than needed, but that definitely should work (next version won't need bb binary at all).
- Make sure that the hobbit.cgi is accessible, and that its working properly (from your browser go to http://74.218.x.x/perl/hobbit.cgi and you should get some XML code back in your browser window) Here is probably my problem, all I get is a white page.
Sorry, I should have specified the full URL to try as http://72.218.x.x/perl/hobbit.cgi?action=execute_push That should give you some XML. without that action parameter you will indeed get a blank page.
I have nothing in error_log but I get a (I believe it to be) normal access_log entry: 172.16.0.153 - - [27/Mar/2008:18:21:25 -0400] "GET /perl/hobbit.cgi HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv: 1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13"
Yep, that's normal for hitting it from your browser.
- do a tail -f of your apache access_log, and see if you get a hit from the IPPhone when you run hobbit.cgi, you should see something like this: 10.216.100.54 - - [23/Mar/2008:04:21:36 -0700] "GET /perl/hobbit.cgi?action=execute_push HTTP/1.1" 200 260 "-" "Allegro-Software-WebClient/3.12" -> /var/www/perl/hobbit.cgi && grep 172\.16\.0\.152 access_log -> Is empty =(
From what I can understand is that the hobbit.cgi is not telling the phone to access the page. Is this right?
Right, so there is either something in the script breaking, a CGI issue, or possibly you can connect to IPPhone, but some network acl prevents the IPPhone from connecting to your cgi host. Once you do the test above and get XML back or not, that will tell us where to look next.
You may want to make a helloworld.cgi that just has: print "Hello World!\n";
and see if you can hit http://72.218.x.x/perl/helloworld.cgi and see the message in your browser...this will tell us if your mod_perl is configured properly.
-Charles
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