Problem in getting values from CGI form

Hi,
We have migrated workflow from QA to Production environment and it is using a CGI task which is calling a .cgi file to get some entries in the form and then insert those entries in the database.But when the we open the CGI form its priniting alert as "can not open file Permission denied" but form is opened and we can fill the values in the form but the workflow fails since it cant read any values from the form for DB operation.Given 777 permission to cgi file .Please guide on this.

TS 672 SP1

Regards
Kavita

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ISCBorisB

We have migrated workflow from QA to Production...

Not sure if that's your problem but just in case...

Double check that you code/generate correct CGI URL. By "correct" here I simply mean that it should
have the same Domain as the Page that instantiated the WF. I saw similar problem few times when code
where CGI URL Domain has been partially hardcoded got promoted to another environment.

The end result is that the Page with oh say "CMSProd.com" Domain tries (through CGI) to instantiate a
Page with the "CMSQA.com" Domain. On it's own that's allowed. However, any attempt to modify the Parent
Page will be blocked by the Browser because of the "Cross-Domain" security violation. The message
is browser-dependent flavor of "Access Denied" Error.

In other words, "news.yahoo.com" can modify "finance.yahoo.com". It is not however allowed to
modify news.google.com

monu1

Hi,

It doesn't resolve the issue .The cgi file is not able to read the data .Can you please suggest some other way where we can read data using CGI file.

Adam Stoller

Hi,
We have migrated workflow from QA to Production environment and it is using a CGI task which is calling a .cgi file to get some entries in the form and then insert those entries in the database.But when the we open the CGI form its priniting alert as "can not open file Permission denied" but form is opened and we can fill the values in the form but the workflow fails since it cant read any values from the form for DB operation.Given 777 permission to cgi file .Please guide on this.

TS 672 SP1

Regards
Kavita

When you say "it is calling a .cgi file" - Is this a Perl script, a Java program, or something else?
Also - what platform are you on - Windows or Unix?
As a shot-in-the-dark: If this is on Windows, and the CGI is a Perl script that is actually a .ipl file with a .cgi binary wrapper (created by copying something like show_env.cgi to the same base-name as the .ipl - and you copied the binary .cgi file from one server to another - that might explain your problem. You should instead call the .ipl directly (forget about the .cgi altogether).
Put another way - what happens if you run the CGI directly from the command-line? Do you get any output (warnings and errors included)?

monu1

Hi ,

There is no issue with the cgi file ,but issue exist with accessing the file because when we uncheck the Restrict Access in Parent Branch the Permission Denied error doesn't comes but if we check it which is best practice to be followed for branch security the issue comes in accessing the cgi file and reading the data from html file.So please suggest some approach of accessing a HTML file through cgi.

Adam Stoller

Hi ,

There is no issue with the cgi file ,but issue exist with accessing the file because when we uncheck the Restrict Access in Parent Branch the Permission Denied error doesn't comes but if we check it which is best practice to be followed for branch security the issue comes in accessing the cgi file and reading the data from html file.So please suggest some approach of accessing a HTML file through cgi.

See the answer(s) in the other thread ..