running perl on my computer, not web based
i'd like to be able to test some of my cgi scripts on my computer before i put the on the web.
therefore, where do i download the program to do so?
also, how would i execute the script? doing it web based i just enter the url, but have no clue as to how to do it on my computer.
thanks in advance for any help and/or tips. 
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Orpheus posted this at 01:14 — 14th February 2000.
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Rob Pengelly posted this at 01:59 — 14th February 2000.
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Perl for Windows can be found at http://www.activestate.com/activeperl
It comes with a debugger so you can debug your scripts before putting them on your website. It also comes with tons of documentation.
You may want to set-up a local webserver (I recommend/use Omnicron httpd, found at [url=http://www.omnicron.ab.ca)]http://www.omnicron.ab.ca)[/url] so that you can test the scripts locally.
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roBofh posted this at 03:21 — 14th February 2000.
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Personally, I feel it's best to test cgi scripts on whatever system you're going to end up using. One very nice benefit of running linux, but that's a side note. you should find out what kind of web server you're hosted on, and try to use either that or an evaluation copy of it so that you can make sure there aren't any obscure problems with it. Perl for windows is great, but nothing beats Perl for whatever system environment you're eventually going to use the script on.
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Maverick posted this at 19:53 — 14th February 2000.
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Editing and testing your Perl programs locally is a lot easier than uploading to the server to test. You should definitely install the necessary software to your computer. I'd recommend going with Apache web server and ActivePerl. Both are open-source, free and available for Windows PCs. There are lot of different freeware personal web servers out there, but Apache rules the market and is therefore the best documented. If you go with Xitami or Omnicron or the others it might be hard to get help if you hit a snag, but getting help for the Apache/ActivePerl combo is really easy. Also, Apache is readily and easily compatible with PHP, MySQL and almost anything else you might want to add along the way. Check out http://www.visca.com/clueless/perl_apache_win9x.html
That's a pretty good tutorial for installing and using a local Perl/Apache set-up.
fairhousing posted this at 03:54 — 15th February 2000.
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thx folks ;0
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