CGI Question
by BenLRead(at)aol.com
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Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:43:42 EST |
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I'm sorry if you've already received my query about this and replyed, but I
subsribed to the list after putting my question in so I fear I might have
missed a responce!
I've recently bought a CGI book and am trying to teach myself. They
recommended I download the Apache webserver from www.apache.org/httpd.html
and a perl interpreter from www.activestate.com, which I've done.
I then wrote the following Perl program in a text editor:
#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe
use CGI;
$query = new CGI;
print $query->header;
print "<head><title>A test</title></head>\n";
print "The test was successful.";
I saved it as test.pl and placed it in the cgi-bin directory of my web server.
The book then tells me in order to request the file with my Web browser
(which is Internet Explorer 5) I am to use the following URL:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi
I then get a page come up saying 'file not found', so then I tried the same
URL but using test.pl instead and it comes up with 'server error'.
I guess that my server is not set up for running cgi programs, could you
please tell me how I do this? I'm trying to run it on a PC with Windows 98
operating system. Please help!
Thanks very much in advance,
Ben Read.
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