On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Aditi Gupta wrote: > > I'm very new to CGI programming. I'm working with following: > Browser: Mozilla Firefox > Server: Apache 2.0.54 > OS: Windows XP > > I'm going through the following online tutorial for cgi: > http://www.cgi101.com/book/ > > The 1st cgi code that I wrote is as follows: > > first.cgi > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > #!perl/bin/perl -wT > use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser); > print " Content-type : text/html\n\n"; > print "Hello World!\n"; > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > But when I write 'http://localhost/~P4/first.cgi' in the browser location > window (P4 is my username), it said "Internal Server Error". I'm working on > my personal computer. The tutorial says that it might happen because I > haven't changed file permissions using 'chmod 755 filename'. But there is no > chmod command in Windows XP. Also, if I don't want to change file > permission, will the code not be executed?
I would assume that your web server has a log that can be accessed. Please check that and see what is reported there. Do you have the #!perl/bin/perl line correctly referenced, ie, where is your perl and then make sure that the shebang line points to the right perl Owen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
