monkey webserver and bash issues

[gschoppe]

I am new to monkey webserver, and to cgi, and am having a lot of trouble making things work.

My goal is to have a cgi script that generates a single line of javascript, containing my device's public IP.

The code I have looks like this:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
#!/usr/bin/bash
echo Content-type: text/javascript
echo ""
localip=$(curl ifconfig.me)
echo "var ip='$localip';"
')

it seems to work when I run it with bash directly, but in monkey, it gets downloaded as a file, rather than executed.

I installed monkey with pacman -Sy monkey, then uncommented the cgi plugin in /etc/monkey/plugins.load, then created a folder in /srv/http/ called cgi-bin, then saved that script as ip.sh, and ran monkey in daemon mode.

help?

[moonman]

I have actually never used monkey myself, but it does seem to be the lightest http server. Try changing the extension of your script to .cgi, maybe it will pick it up then. If it doesn't work, then try lighttpd. It would probaly be the second lightest http server. It is well documented and there are lots of examples so it should be easier to setup.

[rhester72]

It's like any other web server - if you don't explicitly tell it that it can run CGI, it won't.

I presume you have something like this in your monkey config file? (I don't use monkey, just Google-fu)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
Server_ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /root/webserver/cgi-bin
')

Rodney