func_exec reports: HTTP2122: cannot find function named force_type (CGI)

Hello,

I just configured my first instance of WS7 (after many years of using WS6.1, WS6.0, WS4, etc.) and have a most peculiar problem.

I configured a mapping for a CGI directory (pretty basic, uri=/cgi-bin and path is a directory on my server owned by the same user as the instance runs as). When I try to run anything within that directory (e.g., http://myserver/cgi-bin/tester.sh) I see the following error in the errors file:

[02/Feb/2007:10:23:14] config ( 5903):for host 192.168.1.100 trying to GET

/cgi-bin/tester.sh, func_exec reports: HTTP2122: cannot find function named force_type

The tester.sh file is trivial:

74# (cd ~/www/cgi-bin;ls -l tester.sh;cat tester.sh)

-rwxr-xr-x1 wwwwww78 Feb 2 10:30 tester.sh

#!/bin/sh

echo"Content-type: text/plain"

echo

echo"This is a test."

exit 0

I've searched through all of the WS7 docs, and I cannot find any reference to "force_type".

Any ideas what I've done wrong?

Thanks,

Bill

[1121 byte] By [wgkorba] at [2007-11-26 17:07:43]
# 1

FYI, I've discovered that this appears to be a known bug:

Bug ID: 6500715

Synopsis: Incorrect ObjectType fn="force_type" added in object cgi on creation of new cgi directory

Product:

Category: iplanet_web_server

Subcategory: admin_server

State: 10-Fix Delivered

Sub State:

Priority:

Responsible Manager:

Responsible Engineer:

Release:

Integrated in Build: 7.0u1

My only question is, when will 7.0u1 be available? Is there a patch I can get now that will fix this? Not being able to use all of my old CGIs is a huge show-stopper.

Thanks,

Bill

wgkorba at 2007-7-8 23:35:32 > top of Java-index,Web & Directory Servers,Web Servers...
# 2

while you wait for 7.0u1 to be released, you could follow the work around mentioned in the bug - you will need to manually change the line 'force_type' to 'force-type' in the obj.conf or <vs>-obj.conf under https-config

at the end of this step, you will need to run the cli command (pull-config) to bring over this manual change to the admin config repository - http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-3283/6n5h03huv?a=view

It is very unfortunate that this issue could not be addressed in 7.0 time frame itself

chilidevelopera at 2007-7-8 23:35:32 > top of Java-index,Web & Directory Servers,Web Servers...
# 3

Thank you very much for your reply - a work-around is exactly what I was hoping for (well, after a patch, anyway!).

However, that work-around is not mentioned in the bug report as I found it on SunSolve. Perhaps you're looking at an internal version that we don't have access to?

Thanks again,

Bill

wgkorba at 2007-7-8 23:35:32 > top of Java-index,Web & Directory Servers,Web Servers...