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Lighttpd CGI downloads .py instead of running it

I have two CGI test scripts in lighttpd. When I open Bash http://host/cgi-bin/test.sh URL I get a valid response from the script. But when I open Python http://host/cgi-bin/test.py the file is ...
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lighttpd: ajax request prints the content of cgi script instead of running it

I am using lighttpd version 1.4.55 within an ARM environment. I created an HTML pages in which there is a button used to download some json data. This button trigger a submit form that calls a cgi ...
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Inconsistent "unable to open database file" error from a CGI program using SQLite

I've been running a task program for a psychology experiment on my virtual private server with lighttpd 1.4.28 and Ubuntu 12.04. The experiment is a CGI program written in Perl using a Perl module I ...
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CGI scripts are not working on lighttpd with SSL

CGI scripts worked perfectly, while I was using HTTP. Then I set redirecting for all traffic through https and now CGI doesn't work at all (404 - not found). I use lighttpd server. Here is the part ...
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lighttpd rate limits per directory

I'm creating a site with a large number of small tools. One is a tool which uses a Python cgi-script that interacts with the Natural Language Toolkit (nltk), which is disk and CPU intensive. I have ...
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Lighttpd send Nagios command-line output instead of web interface

I recently installed Nagios on an EC2 instance running AmazonLinux (which is basically SuSe, to my understanding). I'm using lighttpd and mod_cgi to serve the web interface. When I navigate to a page,...
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How to get rid of TCP or lighttpd 4KB buffering on CGI output?

I have a stock lighttpd install on a Amazon Linux AMI running on EC2. The only config changes I did is to enable CGI support. Then there is a custom CGI tool (written in C) put in /cgi-bin/ that is ...
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CGI Died, error log [closed]

I've been getting some 500 internal server errors on my website every so often, so I had a look at the error log. I am using lighttpd with Kloxo (lxadmin) installed. I have xcache enabled. 2011-04-...
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Python CGI on Amazon AWS EC2 micro-instance -- a how-to!

How can you make an EC2 micro instance serve CGI scripts from lighthttpd? For instance Python CGI? Well, it took half a day, but I have gotten Python cgi running on a free Amazon AWS EC2 micro-...
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Lighttpd passing url as argument to perl cgi script instead of trying to find file

So I am running lighttpd and am in the process of hacking together a simple pastebin-like scipt. I have set up pb.domain.blah to run a perl cgi script (it is set in index-file.names) and was ...
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Monitorix Graphs Show Boxes Where Text Should Be

I have just installed Monitorix on ArchLinux using the tutorial here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Monitorix I am using the Lighttpd web server. It is working fine and the graphs are being generated,...
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How to diagnose erratic disk behavior?

I have a web site with users lighttpd and CGI scripts. After upgrading to Fedora 11 (ext4) the disc access became erratic. The timing of python -c 'import cgi' varies between 0.1 to almost 10 seconds:...
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