include with cgi return errors

Anon

i hope i have the subject right. i don't know much about cgi. but i'm assuming when you use '?' after .cgi in a file than can be classified as a return feature? anyhow. i have a cgi script that counts how many times a file has been clicked on. and it has a way to return the amount of times that file has been clicked on by including showcount.cgi?filename.ext. problem is when i use the php include it gives me all kind of errors, and warnings. but it works fine using SSI. but i want my files to have the php extention so i can have other php scripts in there. any help would be appreciated. here's the errors and warnings i get...

Warning: open_basedir restriction in effect. File is in wrong directory. in /web/sites/147/burden/www.burden.f2s.com/test.php on line 9

Warning: Failed opening 'cgi-bin/showcount.cgi?index.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /web/sites/147/burden/www.burden.f2s.com/test.php on line 9

is there just something i'm doing wrong. i don't know how i mess up a one liner. but please help.

pnoeric

Mike - sounds like configuration outside of PHP might be mungled? (Wow, I meant to type "munged" but I think "mungled" says it even better!)

If you can pass variables to the CGI now via a URL, in this format:
http://blah.com/cgi-bin/my.cgi?filename.txt

...then it should work with redirection from PHP, too. I am not completely sure if I'm responding to exactly what you're looking at; hopefully this'll help somehow.

best,
Eric

Anon

well... you're right. it's F***ed up. but there's nothing i can do about it. since it's a free host. they just got cgi working. now php crashes. just my luck. but is there another way around this problem? without using SSI i heard there was a way to manipulate .htaccess to perform server side includes from a regular html file. would it be possible to do it from a .php file also?