Chip -- try this in your cgi bin. Type perldoc CGI for more info.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI qw/:standard/;
print header,
start_html('hello world'),
h1('hello world'),
end_html;
-- Cgi.pm makes everything easy. In your code below, you fogot to put the first
<HTML> tag...
--- Chip Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Brett W. McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:39:29 -0400 (EDT)
>
> >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
>
> Here's some more info, I'm at work now and experiencing the same problem on
> differant scripts -
>
> -This is one script I'm having the above problem with -
> bash-2.04$ perl -c umail.cgi
> umail.cgi syntax OK
>
> -This is where perl lives -
> bash-2.04$ which perl
> /usr/bin/perl
>
> -This is the first line from the above non-working script -
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> #####################
>
> -I then wrote this little ditty -
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> print "<body><head><title>My first script</title></head>";
> print "<body bgcolor=\"white\"><h1>Hi there!</h1></body></html>";
>
> And ran it from the browser - http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi
> and it ran fine. Shows a big Hi There!
>
> Here is the permissions setup-
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 chip wheel 187 May 10 08:20 test.cgi
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 chip wheel 11508 May 10 08:32 umail.cgi
>
> I don't know what I am doing wrong, it's probably something really simple and
> obvious, which is why it's being missed.
> I pulled all the ^M's out of the umail.cgi, but that didn't
> make any differance.
>
> --
> Chip
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