[Tfug] not a UNIX question
Zack Williams
zdwzdw at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 21:44:59 MST 2010
> When I bring up the Windows command prompt and just run the CGI from the
> "DOS looking command prompt" the CGI works perfectly including the database
> work.
>
> It looks like the CGI is not seeing the ODBC data set definition pointing at
> my database. But isn't that managed by the CGI? If so, why wouldn't it work
> from the server but would work from the command prompt?
In the ODBC control panel, did you create a System or User DSN?
If it's the latter, try the former, as I'm betting Apache/Perl are
running as a user that can't access that DSN you created.
- Zack
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