Specifying A Shell Cgi Directory (Windows Nt) - Sun Microsystems Netscape Enterprise Server Administrator's Manual

Specifying a Shell CGI Directory
(Windows NT)
To create a directory for your shell CGI files, perform the following steps:
Create the shell directory on your computer. This directory doesn't have to
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be a subdirectory of your document root directory.
From the Server Manager, choose the Programs tab.
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Click the Shell CGI Directory link.
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The Shell CGI window appears.
In the URL Prefix field, enter the URL prefix you want to associate with your
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shell CGI directory.
For example, suppose you store all shell CGI files in a directory called
C:/docs/programs/cgi/shell-cgi, but you want users to see the
directory as http://www. yourserver. com/shell/. In this case, you
would type shell as the URL prefix.
In the Shell CGI Directory field, enter the absolute path to the directory you
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created.
The server must have read and execute permissions to this directory. For
Warning
Windows NT, the user account the server runs as (for example,
LocalSystem) must have rights to read and execute programs in the shell
CGI directory.
Make sure that any files in the shell CGI directory also have file associations
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set in Windows NT. The server returns an error if it attempts to run a file
that has no file-extension association.
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