How to call perl file in UI customization

Hi all,
I added a new custom menu item and on click of menu item that I am calling a cgi file. I placed my cgi in httpd/iw-bin dir but in my CGI form I have few images which its not able to render. It shows the cross sign.
I thought iw-webd is not able to render the images(which it should ideally) so I placed my CGI in httpd/webapps/content_center directory but here its not able to execute CGI file. I think in webapps/content_center I can have only JSP/html files.

Can some one help me how to render images in a custom menu CGI form. I checked the basic things like path of images etc in httpd/iw-bin

Env:
TeamSite6.5 Windows2k

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Adam Stoller

The CGI [probably] belongs where you had it first - IWHOME/httpd/iw-bin/

What you didn't tell us is how you specified the paths to the image(s) in your CGI script - and where those images actually live.

If the images are in IWHOME/httpd/iw-icons/ - I believe you can just refer to them as src="/iw-icons/...."
If the images are somewhere within TeamSite - I believe you can refer to them as src="/iw-mount/default/main/....."

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

jkm

Thanks Adams, it worked perfect for me. I put my images in iw-icons directory and these are coming fine. Earlier I tried placing my images in iw-icons but I was not putting iw-icons in the src URL and it was failing to retreive.

Thanks again for your assistance.

cheers
-rocky

gzevin

I don't think you can point to an arbitrary location, unless you change apache settings...

I myself put images in iw-icons or somewhere underneath it, in separate folders

Greg Zevin, Ph.D. Comp. Sc.
Independent Interwoven Consultant/Architect
Sydney, AU

jkm

Yeps Greg, under iw-icons directory and its sub directories its coming fine but if I need to refer the images from backing store then do I need to write Apache rewrite rules in .htaccess conf file. But as Adam has mentioned above I can refer my images using /iw-mount . I didnt try this as my current requirement doesnt require this but this is just for my info for future information.

Another observation

I can place my custom menu jsp/html files in webapps directory and then render my images etc and we can do the similar functionality of CGI if link is jsp but with html I was tied up becasue we can not call perl from html page and the solution for that is to go by CGI under httpd :-) IF we can perform our operations only with JS then HTML shud also work fine under webapps.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks & Regards
-Rocky

gzevin

I am not sure if this is .htaccess file, I was under differnt impression Smiley Happy

- ususally these are .conf files

as for your HTML file access, I don't seem to understand what is the problem. You can place html in <iw-home>/httpd/iw ...

Greg Zevin, Ph.D. Comp. Sc.
Independent Interwoven Consultant/Architect
Sydney, AU