Webserver perl script woes.

Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 12:23 am Post subject: Webserver perl script woes.

Hey..

I'm trying to have a perl script executed on load from my web server running apache, but for some reason all it does is display the script in text mode in the browser instead of executing it.

Anyone know what I need to do to have it executed?

I can make it execute bby renaming the file .pl or .cgi, but for the purposes I am coding it, the file can't have either of these names. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Matt
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kashani · Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 4:17 am Post subject: perl execution

try ruinning the script out of /home/httpd/cgi-bin/

IIRC the Gentoo apache config by default doesn't allow execution out of the htdocs dir.

kashani
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slartibartfasz · Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 5:18 am Post subject:

run the script from the cgi-bin directory if possible, try to give it a .pl extension and double check your settings for cgi in commonapache.conf as well as file permissions (755). make sure that the mime type is correctly configured...
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xedx · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 93

uzik · Apprentice Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Posts: 257

You will probably have to name it ".cgi" and put it in the cgi-bin
directory if you don't reconfigure apache.
If you put the first line of the script as:
#!/usr/bin/perl
It should still execute as a perl program.

DOUBLE CHECK YOUR PERL PROGRAM as you are probably making
your system VERY CRACKABLE by doing this.