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Administration and Programming Guide for OS/390


Configuring Net.Data for Use with CGI

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is an industry-standard interface that enables a Web server to invoke an application program such as Net.Data. Net.Data's support for CGI lets you use Net.Data with your favorite Web server.

Unless you modified the directory structure or name when you created the hierarchical file system (HFS) directory for Net.Data, the SMP/E install process installed the Net.Data executable files and DLLs in the directory /usr/lpp/netdata/cgi-bin. Because /usr/lpp/netdata is not your Web server's root directory, the Web server cannot process client requests for Net.Data unless you make some additional modifications to the Web server's configuration.

To modify the Web server:

  1. Stop the Web server.
  2. Use either of the following approaches to complete the installation of the executable files and DLLs.
  3. Ensure that the permissions for the Net.Data executable files and DLLs and for each directory in the path to the executable files and DLLs are 755.
  4. Restart the Web server

Restriction: Do not specify more than one of the following directories in the LIBPATH statement of the Web server's environment variables file.

For more detail on installing the Web server and on Web server configuration file directives, refer to the following publications:


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