help with CGI on f2s.com

[libertine08]

Hi,

Does anyone know if f2s supports CGI scripts? I recall it being listed as supporting this, and their main page reads that they do... Although I can't seem to figure out how to run scripts on the server.. Do I need to create my own cgi folder and set permissions or where is perl located on their server? ANY help would be greatly appreciated =/ Thanks...

[Aaron]

You do not need a cgi-bin folder to run F2S CGI scripts. The location of Perl at F2S is /usr/bin/perl. And do not chmod the scripts at all. F2S does the association server-side.

[meow]

:confused: Huh? That's new? I have always chmod'ed.

[Aaron]

Here's a link...

http://www.f2s.com/support/faq/faq.php?category=Perl CGI Scripts

That should answer all questions.

It might just be the server you're on meow. Maybe they all don't have the auto-association.

[BigBensch]

Hi


I use f2s.com and all works perfect, but my yabb board and my UGB.cgi alway show 127.0.0.1 as ip.


Would anyone possible be so kind as to give me a hint or support



THX
BIGBENSCH

[bigperm]

Maybe... if we had some kind of notion as to what you want to know.

[meow]

Originally posted by Aaron
Here's a link...

http://www.f2s.com/support/faq/faq.php?category=Perl CGI Scripts

That should answer all questions.

It might just be the server you're on meow. Maybe they all don't have the auto-association. Thanks. That must be new (relatively). The warnings that chmoding could be dangerous made me go to the users forums. Found a lot about it. Seems like it's still OK to chmode yourself so why do they have that in their FAQ? F2s sometimes do the oddest things...

[meow]

Originally posted by bigperm
Maybe... if we had some kind of notion as to what you want to know.
Read his post - his board logs the same IP all the time. :classic2:

[dony]

you can use cgi in any directory.
just chmod your cgi scripts to 755

[Aaron]

I have heard that F2S has a problem with the IP protocol that Perl uses. I read something of a fix at...

http://www.users.f2s.com

I've never tried it though.

[Akalon]

Originally posted by BigBensch
Hi


I use f2s.com and all works perfect, but my yabb board and my UGB.cgi alway show 127.0.0.1 as ip.


Would anyone possible be so kind as to give me a hint or support



THX
BIGBENSCH

Its in the YaBB FAQ, inside the zip file... it tells you what you have to change for using YaBB on f2s. :)

[BigBensch]

Thank you very much but still one Problem

This is just a problem with some odd hosts that don't use standard cgi environment variables (i.e. things like $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR '}). You can go into YaBB.pl and Post.pl and change this variable to whatever you server uses. An example is F2S, which uses HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR for IP addresses.
How do i do this??

plz help me

[Akalon]

This is just a problem with some odd hosts that don't use standard cgi environment variables (i.e. things like $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR '}). You can go into YaBB.pl and Post.pl and change this variable to whatever you server uses. An example is F2S, which uses HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR for IP addresses.

Well, go into notepad and open YaBB.pl (or .cgi) and go to search > Find... Type 'REMOTE_ADDR' and for every result replace 'REMOTE_ADDR' with 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'.

Do exactly the same for Post.pl, save and upload the files... it should now work ;)

[BigBensch]

notepad found nothing, even

REMOTE

was not found


PLEASE HELP

[BigBensch]

sorry i found it in post.pl, but i didn't find anything in Yabb.pl

[Akalon]

Well try it now and see if it is fixed! :)

[BigBensch]

Thx a lot, you are right. but do you know what can i do with my ultimate Guestbook?
The same thing?

[BigBensch]

yes it was the same




THX

[Akalon]

No problem ;)

[BigBensch]

Pleas help me Again, the log files still show 127.0.0.1 as ip.

PLEASE say me exactly what i have to change in YaBB.cgi(pl)