thttpd and CGI on MPC 850

[Mark Hatle]

Srini Amble wrote:
> Pardon me for posting this message to this mailing list ( it does not quite
> belong here)
>
> I have "thttpd" (version 2.23beta1) running on my MPC850 board. When I submit
> a "FORM" which in turn invokes a CGI program (written in C) the console
> output freezes and I get the error "An error occurred while loading
> http://192.168.0.128/cgi-bin/example.cgi" on the browser window. The board is
> alive because I can ping the board. I can execute the CGI program on the
> shell without any problem. I would appreciate any wisdom from the community
> at large which will help me in debugging this problem.
>
> BTW, Identical set of "thttpd", CGI program, and HTML pages works fine on an
> x86 RH 7.3 host.

thttpd's error handing is far from useful.  Do what I have had to do in the
past.  Go into the thttpd source code and add verbose debugging..  Usually the
problem comes down to missing libraries or something minor like that.

--Mark


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