Configuring Tomcat for CGI Perl

Configuring CGI  Perl in Apache Tomcat :

Software Requirement:

• Apache Tomcat 7.0.11 or above
• JDK 1.6 or above 
• Perl 5 or above

1. Download Tomcat. Install or unzip it to some directory.
2. Modify <TOMCAT_HOME>/conf/web.xml to uncomment the cgi servlet and its mapping

       uncomment:

 

<servlet>

 <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>

 <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</servlet-class>

 <init-param>

 <param-name>debug</param-name>

 <param-value>0</param-value>

 </init-param>

 <init-param>

 <param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name>

 <param-value>WEB-INF/cgi</param-value>

 </init-param>

 <init-param>

 

add the following:

<init-param>

 <param-name>passShellEnvironment</param-name>

 <param-value>true</param-value>

 </init-param>

 

now the CGI blocks look like:

 

 

<servlet>

 <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>

 <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</servlet-class>

 <init-param>

 <param-name>debug</param-name>

 <param-value>0</param-value>

 </init-param>

 <init-param>

 <param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name>

 <param-value>WEB-INF/cgi</param-value>

 </init-param>

 <init-param>

 <param-name>passShellEnvironment</param-name>

 <param-value>true</param-value>

 </init-param>

 <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup>

</servlet>

 

3: Modify the servlet-mapping 

 

<servlet-mapping>

 <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>

 <url-pattern>/cgi-bin/*</url-pattern>

</servlet-mapping>

 

 

4:Modify <TOMCAT_HOME>\conf\context.xml to add a property on <Context>: 

 

<Context privileged="true">

...

</Context>

 

5.Create a cgi folder under <TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/

 

mkdir <TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/cgi

 

6. Create the CGI or Pl file under the same directory 

 

 <TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/cgi/test.cgi

 

#!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe

# filename: test1.cgi

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print "Hello, world!\n"

 

7. Restart the Apache server

 

8: Open the link:http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/test.cgi