RED Hat fetch of texis.cgi murdered

[samoa]

Linux BLAH.com 2.4.9-12.0RS

What is the extension for CGI URLs (the filename extension of the program)?
This may be .cgi if your CGI programs are named like "mysearch.cgi" in URLs.
Or it may be "none" if you have a dedicated CGI dir and URL instead.

CGI extension [ENTER for .cgi]:
Stopping monitor processes.....done
Checking dir with a web fetch...failed, will try again
Trying again with file...*** Failed ***
The URL http://www.xxxxxxxxxx.com/cgi-bin/texis ... html?-dump
could not be fetched.
Possibly the CGI URL prefix (http://www.xxxxxxx.com/cgi-bin)
or the CGI extension (.cgi) is wrong.
The web server response was: HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

[mark]

Which RedHat version are you using?
What [g]libc version are you using?
Which precise version of Webinator did you download (there are several for Linux)?
Make sure you got the one that agrees with your libc version (read the notes under the list of platforms on the download page).

[samoa]

> Which RedHat version are you using?

I uname -a right at the top of the page.

> What [g]libc version are you using?

gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)


> Which precise version of Webinator did you download (there are several for Linux)?

well i tried both of your linux downloads. no go. they both fail on the fetch.

> Make sure you got the one that agrees with your libc version (read the notes under the list of platforms on the download page).

if i have two chances and they both failed, is the writing on the wall? i have installed webinator on solaris, NT and linux many times over and have never seen anything like this. whetehr i'm root or user, it craps out on that little section of install output I posted.

Am I dead in the water ;(

[mark]

uname gives kernel version, which is helpful, but is not the redhat version. /etc/redhat-release has redhat version.

gcc version is not libc version. try
ls -l /lib/libc[.\-]*

Which "both" did you try. There are 3 linux flavors listed. Both kernel 2.4 versions?

Can't say if you are dead yet. We do know that GNU changed the standard to darkness, again, with libc 2.2.5. <diatribe>Maybe someday they'll get a clue about back compatibility and Linux might have a chance of becoming mainstream.</diatribe>

[samoa]

bash-2.04$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)
bash-2.04$

bash-2.04$ ls -l /lib/libc[.\-]*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5724399 Oct 3 12:55 /lib/libc-2.2.4.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 25 11:59 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.4.so


these 2 checkboxes from
http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/ ... llout.html
Linux 2.4l2.1 x86
Linux 2.4l2.2 x86

and the last tar name was webinator-4.0.tar.gz 9,072kb

I don't doubt that we all our suffering from one form or another of linux maladies. I guess, if this isn't blatant user error, we must pioneer this neck of the woods? Seems to me I saw a similar problem in your system of not being able to write to cgi properly but it was not choking on the load of textis.cgi ????

Funny thing is, I do have a linux box where it works fine. at least the old version does.

Verio Enterprise Linux, based on Redhat Linux 6 & 7-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5724399 Oct 3 13:55 /lib/libc-2.2.4.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 10 18:35 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.4.so*


Let me know what I can do to help.

regards from the sunnier part of the US
sAMOa

[mark]

Ok, looks like redhat 7.1 that's been upgraded to the point of roughly 7.2. Webinator for Linux 2.4l2.2 should work.Let's skip the webserver for a minute and see if the executable runs.(500 error could just be a messed up webserver).

You should find in your installation directory a subdirectory called install-tmp. Under that is usr/local/morph3/bin/texis (or just INSTALLDIR/bin/texis if the install got far enough). Run that
INSTALLDIR/install-tmp/usr/local/morph3/bin/texis -version
INSTALLDIR/bin/texis -version
That will tell if texis is running on your system. If it works, you need to check the webserver's error log to see if it gives any more info about that 500 error. What webserver are you using?

[samoa]

apache 1.3.22

bash-2.04$ ./texis -version
Texis Web Script (Vortex) Copyright (c) 1996-2002 Thunderstone - EPI, Inc.
Free Webinator Version 4.00.1015437545 of Mar 6, 2002 (i686-unknown-linux2.4.9-64)

[Thu Mar 28 22:41:01 2002] [error] [client my.ip] Premature end of script headers: /home/httpd/vhosts/xxxxxxxxx.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi
[Thu Mar 28 22:41:01 2002] [error] [client my.ip] Premature end of script headers: /home/httpd/vhosts/xxxxxxxxx.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi


???????

[samoa]

I think I'll reinstall from the very beginning and make sure that
Webinator for Linux 2.4l2.2 gets installed clean. more to come......

[samoa]

OK downloaded clean.

reinstalled clean..

same problem ;(

is there a doctor in the house?

CGI extension [ENTER for .cgi]:
Stopping monitor processes.....done
Checking dir with a web fetch...failed, will try again
Trying again with file...*** Failed ***
The URL http://www.christianism.com/cgi-bin/tex ... html?-dump
could not be fetched.
Possibly the CGI URL prefix (http://www.christianism.com/cgi-bin)
or the CGI extension (.cgi) is wrong.
The web server response was: HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

[Thu Mar 28 23:18:42 2002] [error] [client 209.61.157.45] Premature end of script headers: /home/httpd/vhosts/xxxxxxx.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi
[Thu Mar 28 23:18:42 2002] [error] [client 209.61.157.45] Premature end of script headers: /home/httpd/vhosts/xxxxx.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi

[mark]

Ok, so texis works. Something about your webserver config is preventing it from working in that environment. Is the webserver chrooted or otherwise configured to be very restrictive?