Re: beginner here - with basic cgi trouble

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Chip Wiegand wrote:

> I have the permissions set to 755, so it should be executable. When I
> try ./formparser.cgi I get ./formparser.cgi: not found, but when I
> run perl formparser.cgi it runs fine. I noticed when doing ls -la that
> the four scripts in the cgi-bin all have an asterisk by their name, I
> don't recall what that means. Could that have anything to do with it?

The asterisk is just a visual aid from ls to indicate that the file is
executable (if you have color enabled for ls, they should be green also).
If it works by explicitly using the Perl interpreter but not without,
either your shebang line is wrong or the file isn't exectuable.

-- Brett