CGI Perl scripts may not run under CUPS in RHEL 6.3 - 6.5

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Issue

  • I'm trying to add cgi perl code to cups but It doesn't work. I add a file "/etc/cups/cgi.types" with "application/x-httpd-perl pl". Then I create a CGI Perl script /usr/share/cups/www/modify-page-range.pl and run "chmod a+x /usr/share/cups/www/modify-page-range.pl". Then I modify jobs.tmpl to add a call to my perl script through a form. In the CUPS error_log (with "LogLevel debug2") I can see that /usr/bin/perl is called without any argument (I should have at last /usr/share/cups/www/modify-page-range.pl as an argument).

  • Adding a simple Perl script to /usr/share/cups/www doesn't work. Actual results are "500 Internal Server Error", but the script should execute.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5
  • Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) Web interface

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