.cgi, .pl , other confusing letters
Ok So im learning perl. Im somewhere in the middle of it. I got it installed on my IIS after a few hours. Now I have a friend hosting my site and it says it can run "cgi scripts" witch i thought was .pl and .cgi. But everything i try to get them running doesnt work. I even put the stuff in the cgi-bin. What am I missing!
Greg K posted this at 22:45 — 17th February 2004.
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It has been a while since I worked with PERL, but one thing that comes to mind as being something to check on is the first line that tells the script where PERL is located, it should look somthing like (from a FreeBSD server):
#!/usr/bin/perl'Where perl is at on your system and where it is on your friend's server may be different. This would be the first thing I would check. (although I've never tried PERL on a windows server).
-Greg
druagord posted this at 22:59 — 17th February 2004.
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on a IIS server it should look more like
#!c:\program files\perl\perlif his server can run cgi script ask him he should know where it is. this line being wrong you should get error 500 internal server error premature end of script headers. if you see the script as text in your page then it's the mime type that is not set correctly on the server.
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Mark Hensler posted this at 03:20 — 18th February 2004.
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I don't see this very often in scripts, but its a great debug help..
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bja888 (not verified) posted this at 16:39 — 18th February 2004.
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I tryed both headers and i got an error with the debug thingy. It works on my IIs but not on my friends server.
druagord posted this at 17:06 — 18th February 2004.
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$myhost> error message : unable to compute please supply more data
mairving posted this at 17:38 — 18th February 2004.
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Most of time cgi scripts won't run it is because of permission problems. Need to make sure that it has execute permission by everyone.
druagord posted this at 18:35 — 18th February 2004.
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no specify execute by the webserver user only usualy IUSR_HOSTNAME on IIS
mairving posted this at 18:41 — 18th February 2004.
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I don't know if it is on IIS or Apache. He said that his friend is hosting his site now but no mention of the server type. I would think that if there is a cgi-bin directory then it is Apache though.
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druagord posted this at 19:18 — 18th February 2004.
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IIS use the same directory structure for cgi-bin well it used to when i was still using MS a long long time ago
mairving posted this at 20:33 — 18th February 2004.
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By default cgi-bin is not installed with IIS.
druagord posted this at 20:36 — 18th February 2004.
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no but you should set it up when installing perl. in the same way that you can allow cgi execution in all your web site by setting Options +ExecCGI in apache IIS is configurable to use a script directory or not
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