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Jouni Hämäläinen

In the default web.xml application descriptor, which is located in the conf under the Tomcat installation directory (CATALINA_HOME), you can find the cgi-servlet definition commented out.

  <!-- Common Gateway Includes (CGI) processing servlet, which supports     -->
  <!-- execution of external applications that conform to the CGI spec      -->
  <!-- requirements.  Typically, this servlet is mapped to the URL pattern  -->
  <!-- "/cgi-bin/*", which means that any CGI applications that are         -->
  <!-- executed must be present within the web application.  This servlet   -->
  <!-- supports the following initialization parameters (default values     -->
  <!-- are in square brackets):                                             -->
  <!--                                                                      -->
  <!--   cgiPathPrefix       The CGI search path will start at              -->
  <!--                       webAppRootDir + File.separator + this prefix.  -->
  <!--                       [WEB-INF/cgi]                                  -->
  <!--                                                                      -->
  <!--   clientInputTimeout  The time (in milliseconds) to wait for input   -->
  <!--                       from the browser before assuming that there    -->
  <!--                       is none.  [100]                                -->
  <!--                                                                      -->
  <!--   debug               Debugging detail level for messages logged     -->
  <!--                       by this servlet.  [0]                          -->


  <!-- IMPORTANT: To use the CGI servlet, you also need to rename the       -->
  <!--            $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/servlets-cgi.renametojar file   -->
  <!--            to $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/servlets-cgi.jar             -->


<!--
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>clientInputTimeout</param-name>
      <param-value>100</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>debug</param-name>
      <param-value>6</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name>
      <param-value>WEB-INF/cgi</param-value>
    </init-param>
     <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup>
   </servlet>
-->