[plug] Perl CGI scripts

[Richard Mortimer]

Also remember to do a chmod to make the script executable

[mortimer at proxy mortimer]$ ls -al *.pl

 -rw-rw-r--   1 mortimer mortimer        6 Nov  4 10:23 sample.pl

[mortimer at proxy mortimer]$ chmod 777 sample.pl

[mortimer at proxy mortimer]$ ls -al *.pl

 -rwxrwxrwx   1 mortimer mortimer        6 Nov  4 10:23 sample.pl

[mortimer at proxy mortimer]$

Richard

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From: Leon Brooks
To: RMortimer; 'plug at linux.org.au'
Subject: Re: [plug] Perl CGI scripts
Date: Wednesday, 4 November 1998 8:14AM

P Robinson wrote:
> Can someone give me some general pointers to help me start out, and
> possibly an example. Once I get going I'm usually fine, its just the mag
> is stupid and just gives you the two sample files and a general intro to
> CGI which I already knew.

from the command line, do a 'which perl' and make sure the # line at the
top of the script reflects this (it may be in a different place to their
perl). Check your apache httpd.conf etc to see if the directory is
script-enabled. Make a simple shell script which outputs the bare
minimum headers and HTML (I think apache comes with printenv and maybe
one other test script) and see if it/they run.