CGI Frustration - Resolved!

[Ray Horsley]

Sounds great, Ken!  I've been following this one closely.


Ray Horsley
Developer, LinkIt! Software


on 1/23/03 8:50 AM, Ken Ray at kray at sonsothunder.com wrote:

> Just a quick note to let you all know that my problem got resolved, and I
> have Andu to thank for it. It turned out that my ISP did not have two
> library files that MC needed to operate, and after we figured that out, Andu
> sent me the two files my ISP needed in order to get everything going.
> 
> I'll be posting how I got it working at my web site in case others have
> similar frustrations in getting MC to work as a CGI.
> 
> Thanks for everyone's input, and a special thanks to Andu for coming to the
> rescue!
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Ray" <kray at sonsothunder.com>
> To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:48 PM
> Subject: Re: CGI Frustration
> 
> 
>> Nevermind it was in my previous post (libXext.so.6). I Telnetted in and
>> looked in my /usr/lib directory and sure enough, libXext.so.6 wasn't
> there.
>> I called by ISP and they are "escalating it" because they normally don't
>> support anything other than Perl. Sheesh!
>> 
>> Ken Ray
>> Sons of Thunder Software
>> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ken Ray" <kray at sonsothunder.com>
>> To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
>> Cc: "Scott Raney" <raney at metacard.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: CGI Frustration
>> 
>> 
>>> Yes, I set both the Linux executable and the script to 755. What shared
>> libs
>>> would MetaCard need?
>>> 
>>> Ken Ray
>>> Sons of Thunder Software
>>> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>>> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: <Yennie at aol.com>
>>> To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:40 PM
>>> Subject: Re: CGI Frustration
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> It sounds like you did it right, but that the ISP machine is missing
>> some
>>>> shared libs to run the MetaCard executable....
>>>> 
>>>> One more double check- did you make both the script and the engine
>>>> executable? It sounds like your setup is ok (see above), but that
> would
>>> also
>>>> cause problems.
>>>> 
>>>> Brian
>>>> 
>>>>> linux: error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot
>> open
>>>>> shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>>> 
>>>>> Did I so something wrong here? Provide a wrong path?
>>>> 
>>>> 
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