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basic perl/cgi question

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mover50

mover50

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I am learning perl using Ellie Quigly's book 'Perl by Example'. For the most part it has been very very helpful.
However I am stumped on how to get my perl script to work with cgi.(refering the example3.16 in the manual).

I have posted this on the Apache forum and got some response, but not to the extend that I got it resolved.
I am aslo doing this on linux (learning that too).

My basic question is;
How do it get a perl script to work with linux/cgi/apache?

The browser is Mozilla

I am not even sure what the proper suffix should be or where it should reside. Currently the path is:
/home/mover50/public_html/example.cgi

mover50 is my logon id on linux.

When I run it on my browser as:

I get a not found on this server.

If i drop the .cgi I get a display of the source code or perl script.

I have set up my Apache httpd.conf as best I know how. Have tried to read through the man apache and also have checked out all I can in Quigly's book on cgi along with doing some goodle searches. Nothing so far gets me over that first hurdle, and that being, making a perl/cgi connection.

Please help, I have been dealing with this for about 4 days now and daylight is burning.
I know that it is probably something basic that I should have found and should already know, but, I can't find it.

Thanks,

Kent
 
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Forgot to ask, have you tested your scripts using the .pl extension? Maybe you could also include your code, as it may be a simple error with your code even.

Here is the code, exactly as it comes from the book. And yes I have tried it with the .pl extension.

The actual path to it is:

/var/

#! /usr/bin/perl
# The HTML tags are embedded in the here document to avoid using
# multiple print statements
print <<EOF; # here document in a CGI script
Content-type: text/html
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Town Crier</TITLE></HEAD>
<H1><CENTER>Hear ye, hear ye, Sir Richard cometh!!</CENTER></H1>
</HTML>
EOF

Thanks,

Kent
 
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Have you changed the permission of the file to be executable?

chmod 755 example16.cgi

If you can do this:

perl example16.cgi

and not get any errors, then something is wrong with httpd.conf. Couldn't help you much with that, though.

Ryan
 
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Think I found the problem. Someone on the Apache board pointed out to try it with a blank line after the 'Content-type' statement so it looks like so:

#! /usr/bin/perl
# The HTML tags are embedded in the here document to avoid using
# multiple print statements
print <<EOF; # here document in a CGI script
Content-type: text/html

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Town Crier</TITLE></HEAD>
<H1><CENTER>Hear ye, hear ye, Sir Richard cometh!!</CENTER></H1>
</HTML>
EOF

Adding the blank like made it work.

Regards,

Kent


 
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Now it's not working. Tried it over again and now it does not work. rats.

Kent
 
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