ActivePerl Problem
alazar...@my-deja.com
(blah.cgi) from the command line and it works perfectly, spits out the
html taged code with no errors. However, when I try to run that same
script from an HTML form (action="blah.cgi") it doesn't work. All I get
is the .cgi file literally printed into my browser.
I have the exact same files running and working on a unix server, so I
think the error is not in my code.
I suspect the problem is in the first line of the .cgi file:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
That line is needed for the unix server, but should it be changed for
ActivePerl on a WinNT system?
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Alex Lazarevich
alaz...@itg.uiuc.edu
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Garry Williams
>In article <90p262$6ae$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, alazar...@my-deja.com wrote:
>>
>>I suspect the problem is in the first line of the .cgi file:
>>#!/usr/local/bin/perl
>>
>>That line is needed for the unix server, but should it be changed for
>>ActivePerl on a WinNT system?
>>
>On Unix file systems setting the execute attribute on the file causes the
>shell to understand that the comment is the path to the interpreter.
^^^^^
See exec(2). "The shell" is _not_ involved.
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Garry Williams
Dick Latshaw
CM <cmon...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I suspect the problem is in the first line of the .cgi file:
> > #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> >
> > That line is needed for the unix server, but should it be changed
> > for ActivePerl on a WinNT system?
>
Unless of course you are part of that 60-70% of the universe that is
running Apache. In that case you need something like
#!d:/perl/bin/perl -Tw
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Joel Nelson
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>
> >alazar...@my-deja.com wrote:
> >
> >> I've installed ActivePerl 5.6.0.620 on my windows NT. I can run my
> >> file (blah.cgi) from the command line and it works perfectly,
> >> spits out the html taged code with no errors. However, when I try
> >> to run that same script from an HTML form (action="blah.cgi") it
> >> doesn't work. All I get is the .cgi file literally printed into my
> >> browser.
> >
> >Your web server is misconfigured for running .cgi scripts.
> >
> >> I have the exact same files running and working on a unix server,
> >> so I think the error is not in my code.
> >
> >Quite possibly.
> >
> >> I suspect the problem is in the first line of the .cgi file:
> >> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> >
> >Thats not the problem. However, when you get the web server
> >configured correctly you will get 'Internal Server Error' because
> >your shebang line '#!/usr/local/bin/perl' is indeed incorrect. It
> >should point to your perl executable something like
> >'#!d:\perl\bin\perl'. Note the slashes are windows style but just
> >for that line.
> >
>
> That should either be #!d:\\perl\\bin\\perl or, more simply (gram?)
> #!d:/perl/bin/perl
>
> *My* perl.exe is d:/usr/bin/perl.exe
>
> If you have perl.exe in the path, the simplest is #!perl (but that
> wouldn't work on Unix, which is the system where the #! (shebang) line
> really has a meaning.
>
> Of course, none of this is a solution to the original problem (probably
> a server misconfiguration)
>
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Guess it's been several versions since I tried it but it appears now to
work like:
#!d:/perl/bin/perl
or
#!d:\perl\bin\perl
but internal server error on
#!d:\\perl\\bin\\perl
Hmmm.