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horoscopes2000
10-28-2001, 01:15 AM
Here's a wierd one. I keep getting the same error in my error logfile on my RaQ3. It states that CGI wrapper had a problem with my bignosebird bnbform.cgi.

The funny thing is, the forms seems to process just fine, I receive the data just as I should, no error page is being displayed when "submit" is pressed, so from what I can see there is not an error.


Here's what I get :

[Sat Oct 27 21:18:50 2001] [warn] [client xx.xx.xxx.xx] handler "cgi-wrapper" not found for: /home/sites/home/users/cgi/web/bnbform.cgi

But a few seconds later, along came the form from this visitor.

Any ideas? I am tired of chasing "ghost" problems on my site.

jks
10-28-2001, 06:51 AM
Originally posted by horoscopes2000
[Sat Oct 27 21:18:50 2001] [warn] [client xx.xx.xxx.xx] handler "cgi-wrapper" not found for: /home/sites/home/users/cgi/web/bnbform.cgi
But a few seconds later, along came the form from this visitor.
Any ideas? I am tired of chasing "ghost" problems on my site.

You can just ignore that message. It's "standard" on Cobalt - because of a small bug in the Apache used on the Cobalt servers.

It really means nothing at all, and is not the sign of any problems at all.

horoscopes2000
10-28-2001, 02:06 PM
Good lord, how silly!

Thanks, JKS, I appreciate your reply. In one sense I am please it's nothing to worry about, but on the other hand it's annoying.

Although I noticed some of the error messages say "warn" and others say "error" (?) or something similar.

I managed to find all the "error" ones, and now I have an explanation for the "warn" ones.

Many thanks.