Re: lighttpd - problems with cgi scripts

On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 06:52:29PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
> "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
> 
> > That works, thanks for pointing this out, however, lighttpd should
> > simply give back an error instead of burning my cpu.
> 
> I agree.

Hmm, it is not supposed to burn the cpu and I'll take a look at the
problem and see if I can reqproduce it.
 
> > 
> > > This sounds suspiciously like the "SYSTEMROOT being removed from the
> > > environment" problem.
> > 
> > Hmmm, SYSTEMROOT:
> > $ set | grep SYSTEMROOT
> > SYSTEMROOT='C:\WINNT'
> 
> That's from a normal shell prompt though, right?  It must be set in the
> environment of the CGI script that's forked from the lighttpd.  Try a
> simple CGI that just runs "printenv" and see if it's set there.  The
> reason it seems to come up in CGI scripts is that often the environment
> is cleansed of all but certain permitted variables, and it seems that
> SYSTEMROOT is the casualty of this.  It's a situation particular to
> Cygwin, as win32 native code would know not to remove it, whereas its
> meaningless to stuff written for posix/unix.

add 

#ifdef __CYGWIN__
                /* CYGWIN needs SYSTEMROOT */
                cgi_env_add(&env, "SYSTEMROOT", getenv("SYSTEMROOT"));
#endif


to src/cgi.c in line 640 (or in that range) and tell me if that fixes
it.
 
> Brian
 
    Jan
  
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