Any web server with the CGI Web Connector

Depending upon your web server, you typically configure CGI application mappings in one of two ways: either you specify a particular directory (the cgi-bin) as one that contains all scripts that are executable by the CGI interpreter, or you specify certain file types that are always executable by the CGI interpreter, regardless of the directory in which they are located. The default web applications provided with Crystal Enterprise—ePortfolio and the Crystal Management Console (CMC)—require the latter method.

Consult your web server documentation to see how to specify certain file types as being globally executable by a particular interpreter; then associate all .csp, .rpt, .cwr, and .cri files with the wcscgi.cgi script. (As far as the web server is concerned, the wcscgi.cgi script is the interpreter. However, this script really serves as a wrapper that sets additional environment variables before passing the scripting request along to wcscgi.bin, which is the actual CGI Web Connector binary.)

Note:    ePortfolio and the CMC do not contain all .csp, .rpt, .cwr, and .cri files to a single cgi-bin directory. Therefore, these default applications will not function properly if your web server requires you to specify executable files by directory. In such cases, however, you can still deploy your own web applications that reference .csp scripts from the cgi-bin, so long as you map the Crystal Enterprise file types in the cgi-bin to the wcscgi.cgi script.