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ros

24-08-2009, 22:39

I'm trying to use this cgi script (didn't attach html with forms...):

#!/bin/sh
use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw ( fatalsToBrowser );
use File::Basename;

my $upload_filehandle = $query->upload("userfile");
$filename = $1;
open ( UPLOADFILE, ">/upload/$filename" ) or die "$!";
binmode UPLOADFILE;

while ( <$upload_filehandle> )
{
print UPLOADFILE;
}

close UPLOADFILE;

The problem is - nothing happens. I'm using lighttpd with mod-cgi (tryed fastcgi, but couldn't handle .cgi files).

I get this error.log entry when clicking "upload" button:

2009-08-24 23:17:51: (mod_cgi.c.1118) write() failed due to: Broken pipe

Any ideas?

Pim Borst

27-08-2009, 09:07

Assuming you use lighttpd, I could not get it to work either.
I use the package haserl now (http://haserl.sourceforge.net/) for my upload page.

ros

27-08-2009, 11:54

good idea to use haserl.

But I get response "file uploads not allowed".

Then I echoed the HASERL_UPLOAD_LIMIT and it returns 0.

So I guess the first line of the script is not parsed correctly?

#!/opt/bin/haserl --upload-limit=4096 --upload-dir="/ul"
content-type: text/html

<html><body>
<% echo $HASERL_UPLOAD_LIMIT %> #returns 0

<% echo $HASERL_UPLOAD_DIR %> #returns /tmp

<form action="<% echo -n $SCRIPT_NAME %>" method=POST enctype="multipart/form-data" >
<input type=file name=uploadfile>
<input type=submit value=GO>
<br>
<% if test -n "$FORM_uploadfile"; then %>
<p>
You uploaded a file named <b><% echo -n $FORM_uploadfile_name %></b>, and it was
temporarily stored on the server as <i><% echo $FORM_uploadfile %></i>. The
file was <% cat $FORM_uploadfile | wc -c %> bytes long.</p>
<% rm -f $FORM_uploadfile %><p>Don.t worry, the file has just been deleted
from the web server.</p>
<% else %>
You haven.t uploaded a file yet.
<% fi %>
</form>
</body></html>

Pim Borst

27-08-2009, 16:16

I have --upload-target instead of --upload-dir:

#!/opt/bin/haserl --upload-limit=4096 --upload-target=/tmp

ros

27-08-2009, 21:10

Something else must be wrong. Now I'm pretty sure it's lighttpd configuration.

Command line parameter (upload-limit) is just not passed over to haserl.

Could you perhaps show your lighttpd.conf file?

I've found somewhere same problem, but the solution was to use httpd. I don't want to do that.

thanks

Pim Borst

28-08-2009, 08:21

There is nothing haserl specific in my conf file.
For mod_cgi there is only:

$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/cgi-bin" {
cgi.assign = ( "" => "" )
}

Did you check that the user that runs lighttpd has write permission for the upload dir?

ros

28-08-2009, 09:11

Thank you, that was it!
I had ....=> "/opt/bin/haserl"...

so it didn't take arguments from the first line of the script

i'll post instructions for the whole thing now