that's what I WAS doing and all it did was try to download the script, TheServer DOES support CGI, Windows XP Home edition DOES NOT have IIS ... and also, I suppose more than just activestate doesn't recommend making your PC's Batch Files open to the general public ... I guess I'll have to wait...
the problem ISN'T the web hosting, in fact I uninstalled TheServer a while ago because it gave win95's on my network the blue-screen of doom... I just want to run the script so it outputs as a web-page...
On the Start menu, click Run.
In the Open box, type Regedit and click OK.
Open the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC \Parameters\ScriptMap
On the Edit menu, point to New, and click String Value.
Name the value .pl and press ENTER.
Select...
Every time I go to test my perl script Internet Explorer wants to download the .pl or .cgi file, how do I get it to automatically run the script without download ? all I'm doing is a link like a href="images.pl" or a href="images.cgi" how do I get it to run the script instead...
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