Question about debugging your scripts..

johnnyboy posted this at 11:05 — 21st March 2000.

Joined: Jan 2000

As I'm writing my first Perl/CGI scripts, I'm finding that they need quite a bit of debugging. I'm wondering what the general concensus was on installing server software on my local machine versus uploading scripts to a cgi-bin on a server to debug them. If you have installed local server software, how difficult was it and which product do you use.

Thanks,

John

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Rob Pengelly posted this at 13:30 — 21st March 2000.

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Check out http://www.activestate.com/activeperl
for Win32. It comes with Perl, all the documentation as well as a debugger.

To set up a server I suggest OmniHTTPD (http://www.omnicron.ab.ca). It is really easy to set-up.

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Orpheus posted this at 13:43 — 21st March 2000.

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http://www.apache.org

That's the best win32/UNIX server I know of.