running cygwin bash scripts from apache

Sat Aug 5 14:11:00 GMT 2006

Robert Mark Bram wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have Apache and Cygwin. I would like to run bash scripts from Apache, but am
> unsure as to how to do it. Do I need to configure Apache for this at all?
> 
> I have seen some posts on the newsgroups that suggest I just need to have a
> script that references bash through the shebang line. This is what I tried:
> 
> #!C:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe
> 
> echo -e "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
> echo "<html>"
> echo "<body>"
> echo "==test=="
> echo "</body>"
> echo "</html>"
> 
> All I get is the whole script displayed in my browser.
> 
> Could this be something to do with line endings? Do I have to specify some other
> path for bash or configure Apach somehow?
> 
> Any advice would be most appreciated!

Are you using the Apache packaged with Cygwin, or some other Windows
Apache? And, what version of Apache?

Max.

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