Running Perl Script in Jakarta Tomcat Server (Continued)

Now that you have added the necessary environment variables, you need to also change some Tomcat Web server files. Here is a list of items for you to change in Tomcat to make Perl scripts work.

1. Change c:\Jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18\server\lib\servlets-cgi.renametojar to c:\Jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18\server\lib\servlets-cgi.jar.
2. Change c:\Jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18\server\lib\servlets-ssi.renametojar to c:\Jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18\server\lib\servlets-ssi.jar. (See Figure 2 to see where these files are located.)
3. Because we are going to use the "examples" Web app that comes with Tomcat, you need to add this subdirectory: c:\Jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18\webapps\examples\WEB-INF\cgi. (See Figure 3 to see what your directory structure should look like after adding this subdirectory.)
4. The last item to change is the web.xml file that is located at c:\Jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18\conf\web.xml. Open this file in a text editor and uncomment these lines of code (just remove the <!-- and --> to uncomment the code).

<!--
   <servlet>
      <servlet-name>cgi
      </servlet-name>
      <servlet-class>
         org.apache.catalina.
         servlets.CGIServlet
      </servlet-class>
      <init-param>
         <param-name>
            clientInputTimeout
         </param-name>
         <param-value>100
         </param-value>
      </init-param>
      <init-param>
      <param-name>debug
         </param-name>
      <param-value>6
      </param-value>
      </init-param>
      <init-param>
         <param-name>
            cgiPathPrefix
         </param-name>
         <param-value>
            WEB-INF/cgi
         </param-value>
      </init-param>
         <load-on-startup>5
         </load-on-startup>
   </servlet>
-->

5. Change mapping for the cgi servlet inside the web.xml file. In this script, you need to uncomment the <servlet-mapping> by removing the <!-- and -->.

   <!-- The mapping for the 
      CGI Gateway servlet -->

<!--
   <servlet-mapping>
      <servlet-name>cgi
      </servlet-name>
      <url-pattern>/cgi-bin/*
      </url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>
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