I have small CGI script running on a server[Linux OS]. following is a part of script output..
<tr><td valign="center">Lol</td><td valign="center">10112</td><td>abc.pdf</td></tr>
But when I click on this abc.pdf hyperlink, browser displays error message:URL /home/pathtopdf/abc.pdf was not found on the server. while the pdf and path is definitely there and all files and folders in the path[including pdf] has full permission.
My server location is # /srv/www and script in /srv/www/cgi-bin, but when I put the link to pdf as follows
<tr><td valign="center">Lol</td><td valign="center">10112</td><td>abc.pdf</td></tr>
The error message was The requested URL '/srv/www/for_html/abc.pdf' resolves to a file which is marked executable but is not a CGI file; retrieving it is forbidden. Again permission is there for files.
What could be the problemo?
Your problem is that you try to request a file outside of the webroot. So by clicking that, the browser is really requesting
http://example.com/home/pathtopdf/abc.pdf
not
/home/pathtopdf/abc.pdf
You can edit your apache config file and add a virtual host to that directory under a subdomain (say downloads)
After your edit, I am assuming you are using the file:// protocol, directly on the server. I would say just to remove the executable bit from your .pdf's file permissions. Run from a shell:
chmod -x /srv/www/for_html/abc.pdf
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Is it possible to automatically load index.html on a system folder without using XAMPP, IIS or similar?
It is for a school project and I can't use them, so I have to open the file putting the path (C:/...) into the address bar.
I know I could use .htaccess, but I don't know what to write and if it gets read without any web server solutions!
This can get a little tricky... but is possible without any "administrator" privileges, nor without installing anything.
Download Python 3.8.2 - Windows x86-64 embeddable zip file
Create a folder on "python" on the c:\
Extract the "Zip" file into this folder
Change the folder name from "python-3.8.2-embed-amd64" to "python_src"
Create a folder named "python_html"
The folder structure should look like:
c:\python\
c:\python\python_src\
c:\python\python_html\
Create a file named "webserver.py" in the "c:\python\python_html" folder
Place the following code into that file:
#webserver.py
import http.server
import socketserver
PORT = 80
Handler = http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
with socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler) as httpd:
print("serving at port", PORT)
httpd.serve_forever()
Save and close the file
Create index.html file in the "python_html" folder and place the following code in that file:
<html>
<head>
<title>Web Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Python Web Server File</h1>
<p>Congratulations! The HTTP Server is working!</p>
</body>
</html>
Open the "Command Prompt" and type the following commands
cd\
cd python\python_html\
c:\python\python_src\python ./webserver.py
Open a web browser and navigate to "http://localhost/"
Once you have confirmed this works, you can build an entire website within that "python_html" folder. As long as you don't close the command prompt it will continue acting as a "Web Server".
I know I could use .htaccess
.htaccess is an Apache (Web Server) config file, so unless you have Apache installed (ie. the "A" in XAMPP) then you can't use that. (If .htaccess was available then index.html would likely load automatically anyway.)
On Apache, being able to load index.html by default when requesting a directory requires mod_dir (an Apache module). In this case, mod_dir issues an internal subrequest for the DirectoryIndex - this all requires additional processes.
I can't install extensions... I have to open the file on my school computer
If you can't install anything then you can't do this I'm afraid. You appear to be limited to direct file requests.
When using a webserver (such as Apache or IIS) then you have a differentiation between a URL and a filesystem path. The webserver maps the URL to a filesystem path. Without a webserver you don't have that abstraction.
There are lighter webservers, other than Apache and IIS, but you need to install something extra.
Just give your file(s) meaningful names (ie. not index.html) and use those instead? eg. fox-project.html
I have a pdf link like www.xxx.org/content/a.pdf, and I know that there are many pdf files in www.xxx.org/content/ directory but I don't have the filename list. And When I access www.xxx.org/content/ using browser, it will redirect to www.xxx.org/home.html.
I tried to use wget like "wget -c -r -np -nd --accept=pdf -U NoSuchBrowser/1.0 www.xxx.org/content", but it returns nothing.
So does any know how to download or list all the files in www.xxx.org/content/ directory?
If the site www.xxx.org blocks the listing of files in HTACCESS, you can't do it.
Try to use File Transfer Protocol with FTP path you can download and access all the files from the server. Get the absolute path of of the same URL "www.xxx.org/content/" and create a small utility of ftp server and get the work done.
WARNING: This may be illegal without permission from the website owner. Get permission from the web site first before using a tool like this on a web site. This can create a Denial of Service (DoS) on a web site if not properly configured (or if not able to handle your requests). It can also cost the web site owner money if they have to pay for bandwidth.
You can use tools like dirb or dirbuster to search a web site for folders/files using a wordlist. You can get a wordlist file by searching for a "dictionary file" online.
http://dirb.sourceforge.net/
https://sectools.org/tool/dirbuster/
when i upload my website to my hosting Justhost it not working and it show only error like this
an error occurred while processing this directive
Please help me to correct this error
try the steps that follow:
Go to cPanel
Open File Manager from Files section
Navigate to domain folder
Check "Perms" column on far right hand side
Files should be set to: 0644 (this is the UNIX file permissions)
Folders should be set to: 0755
This will change your file permissions to their proper settings for the justhost file system. Additionally, if you have PHP code within.htm or .html files, you will need to add an additional Apache handler to tell justhost to parse these files as PHP. Do this using Apache Handlers in cPanel:
I have an OpenShift server running python. However when I call php via SSL the php interpreter starts running. It suggests that there might be a way to run php as well. However, HTML if fair enough for me. Now, I do not know how to be able to reach html files on my server as when I am trying I always get 404 not found. I've read about a solution of placing a .htaccess file:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
I am not exactly sure where to place this file but placing in the folder of the .html file still not helps.
Could you please help me how I can make .html files reachable at an OpenShift server running Python? How about php?
Put the .html file in your app-root/repo/wsgi/static folder (or in that folder in your git repository). if you want it to be displayed like app-domain.rhcloud.com/file.html, you will have to use a .htaccess file in your wsgi folder that rewrites file.html to static/file.html
I have a script for downloading all of my Chrome Bookmarks. I use wget with the --html-extension because some of the bookmarks end in .php and can't be opened by a web browser unless --html-extension option is used. The problem I am having is that when I use --html-extension with --no-clobber, It doesn't recognize that most of the files are already there for some reason, so it goes through the whole process of redownloading stuff it already has.
An example:
wget -nc http://www.test.com/
run once will save the file like it is supposed to. if you run it again then it will say the file already there so not retrieving. that is the operation i would expect.
however, delete the file that was just saved and run:
wget -nc http://www.test.com/ --html-extension
and then run that same command again. it overwrites the file instead of saying file already there. What is going on?
When the html suffix is added, wget can't tell what remote file you want to compare it to.
man wget: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?wget
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--html-extension
If a file of type application/xhtml+xml or text/html is downloaded
and the URL does not end with the regexp .[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?, this
option will cause the suffix .html to be appended to the local
filename. This is useful, for instance, when you're mirroring a
remote site that uses .asp pages, but you want the mirrored pages
to be viewable on your stock Apache server. Another good use for
this is when you're downloading CGI-generated materials. A URL
like http://site.com/article.cgi?25 will be saved as arti-
cle.cgi?25.html.
Note that filenames changed in this way will be re-downloaded every
time you re-mirror a site, because Wget can't tell that the local
X.html file corresponds to remote URL X (since it doesn't yet know
that the URL produces output of type text/html or application/xhtml+xml. To prevent this re-downloading, you must use -k
and -K so that the original version of the file will be saved as
X.orig.