[OpenLayers-Users] Problem with WFS proxy.cgi

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi,

since you are running Tomcat and Geoserver, you are better off using:

http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/GeoServer+Proxy+Extension

Best regards,
Bart

On Mar 2, 2010, at 6:26 PM, moataz Elmasry wrote:

> Hello List
> 
> I know that this topic has been visited many times
> 
> I'm aware of the following pages:
> http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#ProxyHost
> http://trac.openlayers.org/browser/trunk/openlayers/examples/proxy.cgi
> and the threads:
> http://openlayers.org/pipermail/users/2006-November/000158.html
> http://openlayers.org/pipermail/users/2009-September/013890.html
> 
> I created a web project under eclipse and I'm running tomcat also under 
> eclipse as a server. geoserver is also used standealone
> I followed the steps in the many tutorials
> 1- uncomment the cgi servlet block and the mapping block
> 2- rename the servlet jar
> 3- put the proxy.cgi file under WEB-INF/cgi
> 4- I also copied that same proxy.cgi under cgi-bin/ (i.e. two copies of 
> proxy.cgi, I know its probably wrong, but I got confused with the tutorials)
> 5- both proxy.cgi are made executable with chmod
> 6- when I run localhost:8080/myproject/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi I get the 
> content of that file not the openlayers page
> 
> The file exists, only its not executed
> Any points what can I do?
> 
> Best regards
> 5- Now when I call
> 
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