I have a Tomcat web server, and since my application is fairly small, I would like to serve web pages from it as opposed to the Apache HTTP server. The only problem is, I need to run CGIs - is there a way to do this in Tomcat? Thanks, Kevin
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Did some quick reserach on the mailing lists and it appears the answer is no.
The answer is a tentative yes, seeing as how I've never done it myself... but look in the CATALINA_HOME\conf\web.xml file, around line 190 you'll see a huge block commented out:
<!-- Common Gateway Includes (CGI) processing servlet, which supports --> <!-- execution of external applications that conform to the CGI spec --> <!-- requirements. Typically, this servlet is mapped to the URL pattern --> <!-- "/cgi-bin/*", which means that any CGI applications that are --> <!-- executed must be present within the web application. This servlet --> <!-- supports the following initialization parameters (default values --> <!-- are in square brackets): -->
I also searched through my few-month archive on the Tomcat-Users list, but hadn't found any references to this ability. So it's probably untried and not popular. After all, JSP/Servlets are supposed to replace all that Perl/C/C++ cgi stuff, right?
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