C & CGI problems

[invalid]

Hi,

I am very very new to cgi scripting, and am in need of some assistance.

I was recently given a cgi script, in the form of a C file. Being new to cgi, I checked some websites and was told to do the following:

gcc -o test.cgi test.c

This produced the executable to be run. If I run it from the command line, it works fine - though if I try to call http://myhost.com/cgi-bin/test.cgi I get a 500 Internal Server Error.

I know that a perl cgi script works, as there was an example in the folder already.

Is there a setting somewhere I should be fixing? Or shoul I be doing something differently to get a C program to cgi?

Thanks in advance!
Cb

[mlseim]

Are you using your own server, or a webhost?

I don't imagine many webhosts have their cgi-bin directories
set up for C (usually set up for Perl).

[invalid]

Hi,

I am hosting it locally, so I can make any configure changes if necessary - all I would need to know is what to change, or somewhere that might help me in deciding what to change.

Thanks

[mlseim]

I don't have my own local server, but I found this ...
It looks like they do it different than you did:

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/cgi3.htm

You didn't mention what the script was that you
compiled and tried to run. But before anything is
sent to the browser for display, you need to specify
the type:

printf("Content-type: text/html\n\n");

This is true for both C and Perl.

try some of the examples they show.

[invalid]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply,

The examples on that website seem to work good. I guess this means there is a problem with this particular code, I will have to somehow figure out what to fix.

Thanks for your help.