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Asked: 2026-05-11T00:44:55+00:00

I have configured Tomcat 6 to serve Perl CGI scripts. That part is well

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I have configured Tomcat 6 to serve Perl CGI scripts. That part is well documented and works ok for me.

But, when a browser requests an image from this CGI dir, Tomcat’s CGI servlet refuses to serve the image, displaying instead merely the url of the image. I believe this is a security feature to prevent users from seeing the contents of such files in general.

How do I configure tomcat, the tomcat CGI servlet, and/or the tomcat default servlet, to actually serve up an image file which happens to be located in my CGI dir? Is that possible?

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  1. Resolution: I gave up on my ‘single server’ (i.e. the existing Tomcat server) approach and installed Apache as well. Naturally, Bugzilla works much more readily under Apache. No real surprise there.

    I conclude that:

    1. Apache has no problem serving image files from under a cgi-bin dir.

    2. Bugzilla developers don’t seem to think it’s bad to put the image file dir in with the application scripts.

    3. Tomcat’s support for cgi-bin is not as rich/extensive as Apache’s.

    4. The answer to my original question is: it cannot be done in Tomcat 6.

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