Error: Invalid Session String

Hi,
I am having a problem with our development server. We tried developing some CGI and run it through Teamsite. We kept all the files under iw-bin folder. But, when I tried to run the CGI file with following URL in browser.
//localhost/iw-bin/CGI_test.ipl
It throws following error.
The page cannot be found
This works well in our staging server.
I remember we had such a problem. And then we gave wrapper around it and that worked.
//localhost/iw-bin/iw_cgi_wrapper.cgi/CGI_test.ipl
But this time it gave
Internal Server Error
I looked into following log /iw-webd/logs/error.log. But it also showed
No such file or directory: script not found or unable to stat:
The difference I know between staging and production is a patch installation.
Both are 6.5 SP2 ,windows server 2003 with IE.

Any idea why is this happening ?
Appreciate your help.

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Adam Stoller

Hi,
I am having a problem with our development server. We tried developing some CGI and run it through Teamsite. We kept all the files under iw-bin folder. But, when I tried to run the CGI file with following URL in browser.
//localhost/iw-bin/CGI_test.ipl
It throws following error.
The page cannot be found
This works well in our staging server.
I remember we had such a problem. And then we gave wrapper around it and that worked.
//localhost/iw-bin/iw_cgi_wrapper.cgi/CGI_test.ipl
But this time it gave
Internal Server Error
I looked into following log /iw-webd/logs/error.log. But it also showed
No such file or directory: script not found or unable to stat:
The difference I know between staging and production is a patch installation.
Both are 6.5 SP2 ,windows server 2003 with IE.

Any idea why is this happening ?
Appreciate your help.

Although I think you'd get a different error message - are you sure you have a customer web server configured [correctly] on this server? Can you click on the name/link of an HTML file in TeamSite and see it rendered? If not - that's probably the problem.

Another thing - and perhaps something to verify first - I don't believe the URI should begin with "//localhost" - try removing that (and/or the '/' before iw-bin) and see if that helps.

And yet another thing - make sure the #! line at the beginning of the CGI script (I'm assuming Perl here) is pointing to the correct path for iwperl.

Amit_LnT

Hi Ghoti,
Thanks for the reply.
I checked couple of html files and those and rendering fine.
I tried the script with URI
http://iw-bin/CGI_test.ipl.
But no success, same result - page can not be displayed.
The script has the required line at beginnig and it runs fine on another server.

Anywhere else, I can check more on this.

nipper

Can you log into the server and run it from a DOS shell?

nipper

also make sure that ${iw-home}/private/etc/passphrase file is readable by the user

Adam Stoller

Hi Ghoti,
Thanks for the reply.
I checked couple of html files and those and rendering fine.
I tried the script with URI
http://iw-bin/CGI_test.ipl.
But no success, same result - page can not be displayed.
The script has the required line at beginnig and it runs fine on another server.

Anywhere else, I can check more on this.

The uri should, I believe, be just /iw-bin/CGI_test.ipl - no "http:" stuff, and only a single slash at the front.