[OpenLayers-Users] proxy.cgi fails

[Marc Jansen]

Hi Sven,

Is there some firewall active on the server?

What do you see if you enter http://example.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi in 
your browser manually? When called without parameters, it'll try to 
access www.openlayers.org.

You should see the OpenLayers Homepage served by your proxy (You'll need 
to allow the host www.openlayers.org though)

Regards,
Marc


On 27.08.2010 11:04, Sven Burbeck wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> 1.) Browser indicates: "waiting for localhost" and finally:
> "<urlopen error [Errno 110] Connection timed out>"
>
> 2.) mytest.cgi indeed wasn't Python but Perl. However, I changed it to Python
>       Content:
>       #!/usr/bin/python
>       print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n";
>       print "Python CGI works";
> and it works!
>
> 3.) changed first line in proxy.cgi to #!/usr/bin/python
> but to no avail. The problem remains.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Sven
>
>
>
> Quoting "Marc Jansen"<jansen at terrestris.de>:
>
>    
>> Hi Sven,
>>
>> Just some thoughts/questions:
>>
>>     * What is the exact server message?
>>     * Is your test.cgi a python cgi?
>>     * Can proxy.cgi find the pythoin executable?
>>     * On a terminal on that machine issue
>>       which python
>>
>>       This should give you the path to the python executable
>>       (/path/to/python). Replace the first line in the proxy.cgi script
>>       #!/usr/bin/env python
>>
>>       to the output of 'which'
>>       #!/path/to/python
>>
>>     * Is the script executable (check it with ls -la, maybe add it with
>>       chmod +x proxy.cgi)
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 27.08.2010 09:36, Sven Burbeck wrote:
>>      
>>> Hello,
>>> sorry for asking stupid newbie questions but I fail to get the
>>> proxi.cgi working.
>>> I followed the FAQ description:
>>> http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#ProxyHost
>>>
>>> I've installed Apache 2.2.13 on SUSE11.2 via rpm.
>>> Apparently the default cgi-bin is under /srv/www/cgi-bin
>>> I put a test.cgi there and it works when calling it:
>>> http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi
>>>
>>> However, trying the same with proxy.cgi fails.
>>> Is there anything else I have to consider?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Sven
>>>
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