Help with running perl from html

[vodkadrinker]

Hi I am very new to this and would like some help please.

This is my setup, Redhat Linux 9 running on a laptop, running mozilla as my browser locally.

I have create a guestbook html that call's the perl script but instead of running the perl script it just displays the contents of the file.

If i run the script from the unix command line it works fine.

A have copied the example from a book so it should work.

Any idea's or check's I could do, bear in mind this is my first script.

Thanks,
VD

 

[PaulTEG]

Assuming you're running Apache as a webserver, you have to set up apache to run cgi scripts, and if that's done the script should reside in the cgi-bin directory

<form method=post action=/cgi-bin/myscript.pl>

We don't really have enough information to be specific here though.

The script in a cgi-bin directory (or one that's set up accordingly), and the html page in a subdirectoty of htdocs, vhtdocs, or something similar

HTH
--Paul


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