Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 15:29:42 +0200 From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> To: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie getting started with perl Message-ID: <3CADA6C6.EB34D3E3@cs.umu.se> References: <20020405004511.A6159@mail.clubplus.net>
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David Banning wrote:
>
> I am trying a simple script in perl;
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> print "Hello World!";
>
> the file is saved as hello.cgi and simply displays as it is above
> in my browser. I am wondering if something is not working or if
> I am missing something.
As the Perl-program seems to be correct the problem is elsewhere.
If you browse through your httpd.conf you have a row that says some-
thing like this:
# ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
# ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
# documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and
# run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the
# client. The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives
# as to Alias.
#
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/"
#
# "/usr/local/www/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
# CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
#
<Directory "/usr/local/www/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Put your script in the directory /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/ and make it exe-
cutable by 'chmod uog+x hello.cgi'.
In your HTML-page you should now write:
<html>
<body>
<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/hello.cgi"-->
</body>
</html>
Load your HTML-page in a browser and hopefully it should now be executed.
Also take a look at:
# To use CGI scripts (outside of script aliased directories):
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
# To use server-parsed HTML files
#
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .html
Read more about these configuration statements in your manual and hopefully
you'll be ready to go, making a lot of nice pages with scripts.
Good luck!
Best regards,
Paul
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