From owner-freebsd-www Wed May 14 15:31:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA09960 for www-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 15:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA09952; Wed, 14 May 1997 15:31:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA19410; Wed, 14 May 1997 15:31:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970514153146.26267@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 15:31:46 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Cc: webmaster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help! apache doesn't send cgi's output... References: <19970513213038.60635@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199705142048.NAA03804@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199705142048.NAA03804@hub.freebsd.org>; from Jonathan M. Bresler on Wed, May 14, 1997 at 01:48:26PM -0700 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jonathan M. Bresler scribbled this message on May 14: > John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > > > well.. tssia... try http://www.freebsd.org/~jmg/cgi-bin/guestbook.cgi > > and even though you can get perfect output when run it manually, and > > apache doesn't report any errors... so I'm quite puzzled why it doesn't > > output... > > John-Mark, > this looks quite promising! may i make a couple suggestions? > create drop down lists for most (all?) data fields with an > option of other. other lets them type somehting in. this > should increase the usefullness of the data by reducing > the number of mistyped or misrememberd entries. heh.. sure.. won't be hard... I guess I should make one that would be generic for FreeBSD hardware too... > would be nice to be able to search the database using > miniSQL ;) well.. it shouldn't be that hard to adapt to SQL... just never done any SQL programming... Doug, you have an easy example to use? I was thinking about creating an index along side this databae so that we could do indexing/sorting easier... if someone is interested in the source for the cgi... just mail me... you'll be surprised how simple it is... :) -- John-Mark Cu Networking Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD