[Fwd: Re: CGI program cannot access database]

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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] CGI program cannot access database
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:34:12 +0400
From: Maarten Boekhold <boekhold(at)emirates(dot)net(dot)ae>
To: Samik Raychaudhuri <samik(at)freeshell(dot)org>
References: <4165F78F(dot)7070002(at)freeshell(dot)org>

Samik Raychaudhuri wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to run a perl CGI program for accessing a database. The
> program runs fine from command prompt, producing expected output. But it
> gives errors while running as CGI.

Are you trying to run this under cygwin? If so, there's a very recent
thread on the cygwin mailing list about this. Apache clears the
environment before launching a CGI script, but the winsock API requires
the SYSTEMROOT environment variable to be set. You can configure apache
*not* to remove that variable from the environment.

Maarten