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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:52:18 +0200
From: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
To: Chris Walterhouse <chris@tattoos.com>
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Subject: Re: perl and cgi
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In-Reply-To: <000101bfbffc$8adbfd00$61442a18@cr82452-a.pr1.on.wave.home.com>; from chris@tattoos.com on Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:36:36AM -0400
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Hey there,

On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:36:36AM -0400, Chris Walterhouse wrote:
> Our company just purchased a new server running FreeBSD but we have a couple
> of questions that our server support can't answer because he's out of town
> for a while:
> 
> 1. where would you find the path to perl 5 if you were to FTP into the
> server? We're not sure is perl is installed or not.

Perl can be found in /usr/bin.

> 2. where would you find the cgi bin in a freeBSD server? do you have to make
> one?

You would have to install the apache port for this.  See
/usr/ports/www/apache13 to install it.  Once you've installed that port,
your cgi-bin directory should be in /usr/local/www/cgi-bin.  You can
obviously change this in the httpd.conf file.

> We were running a BSDI server with all this stuff installed and ready to go
> before changing to freeBSD so we're not sure about the above.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Marc


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