The page should redirect you to the OpenLayers home page, or whatever url you have set in the proxy.cgi section: else:įor a working example of a Web page with OpenLayers using a proxy. You can test that the proxy.cgi is working by browsing to it like (below), without any parameters. You need to restart Apache for the configuration changes to be enabled. # Enabling the below to allow python processing # (You will also need to add "ExecCGI" to the "Options" directive.) # To use CGI scripts outside of ScriptAliased directories: # or added with the Action directive (see below) These can be either built into the server # AddHandler allows you to map certain file extensions to "handlers": To enable the proxy.cgi file to be recognized as executable you need to uncomment the appropriate AddHandler section (within the section), like: Options +FollowSymLinks +Includes +ExecCGI # Adding +ExecCGI allows CGI scripts to run outside of cgi-bin (and similar) script folders # The Options directive is both complicated and important. The proxy.cgi file itself doesn't need to be placed in the cgi-bin folder of the Apache server it can go anywhere but you need to enable this by editing the following directive in the Apache nf file like below (where "C:/Apache24/htdocs" is taken to be the document root). OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=."
#How to install cgi proxy script code
The call to the proxy.cgi file (like below) needs to go into your JavaScript code called by the HTML page in which you create your map. LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.soĪnswering other questions raised in the comments: LoadModule proxy_ajp_module modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so The typical location for the httpd.exe file would be in the bin sub folder such as: * C:\Apache24\bin\Ĭheck too that at the top of the nf file that you have uncommented (remove the #) the modules that handle proxying like: LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so If you get an error "is not recognized as an internal or external command" then the Apache httpd.exe is not in your path, you will need to change to the directory that holds the httpd.exe file before running the command. To help you debug any issues with the Apache configuration open a command window and try: httpd.exe -t showing up in server logs, or those of Web proxies along the way, this is true.
#How to install cgi proxy script install
ProxyPass /geoserver ProxyPassReverse /geoserver or ProxyPass /geoserver ProxyPassReverse /geoserver To test whether the proxying of GeoServer via Apache is working you should browse to: If this page opens then the Apache web server is correctly proxying the the GeoServer server. Q4: I found a great CGI script on the Web and I want to install it.
In Apache and many other servers, this is done by simply starting the filename with. You could try also using the server IP or localhost instead of 127.0.0.1 in the ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse sections, i.e. This script MUST be installed as a non-parsed header (NPH) script.
Which are part of the configuration settings for Apache and added to the nf file. For your Apache 2.4 server you could instead try: ProxyRequests Off Those settings look like they belong to an Apache 2.2 server.