Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:00:53 +1000 From: "Julian Morgan" <jmorgan@mitchells.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: running CGI script on my server Message-ID: <4A256AFD.00160EC8.00@mail.mitchells.com.au>
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Hey pplz,
was wondering if you can help... I have just got up a web site on a
FreeBSD 4.2 server that I have installed Apache on... I know that perl is
running as I have the following running in /usr/local/bin directory
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 766524 Oct 1 15:53 perl
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 766524 Oct 1 15:53 perl5.6.1
As cgi is a new thing to me I have tried installing an application called
newspro... It generates a news service on your website...
I have installed the opening code in the default web directory
/usr/local/share/doc/apache/
The site is up and running so I know the web config is alright...
Newspro then tells me to install the following files to
/usr/local/share/doc/apache/newspro
.htaccess
archive.tmpl
arclink.tmpl
ndisplay.pl
news.txt
newsdat.txt
newspro.cgi
npa_add.pl
npconfig.pl
nplang.pl
nplib.pl
nsettings.cgi
readme.txt
viewnews.cgi
viewnews.tmpl
It then tells me to config 4 things
in viewnews.cgi and newspro.cgi change the top line to = the perl path exe -
which I believe is #!/usr/local/bin/perl
chmod's on some files
If I am having trouble with .cgi extension, to rename them to .pl extensions
I might have to put the cgi files into a cgi bin on the server, which I guess is
/usr/local/www/cgi-bin.default
Ok now it says that I can go to http:/www.(mywebsite).com/newspro/newspro.cgi
and it should run the cgi script
All I end up getting is a copy of that file - would you know what I am doing
wrong
I am sure I have put the #!/usr/local/bin/perl -path correct, do I have to do a
CPAN for cgi ????
anyhelp would be great...
Regards
Julian
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