Read the perldocs - do a perldoc search for string "CGI" - on
*nix you can do that search by doing this at the command line:
perldoc -q CGI
then page down until you find the section titled
=head2 My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500 Server
Error)
HTH.
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Hardy Merrill
Mission Critical Linux, Inc.
http://www.missioncriticallinux.com
dk henderson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>
> I narrowed a problem down to dbi not working with my apache 1.3.20 install on cygwin.
> I can connect to a remote mysql server with dbi/dbd-mysql, from a perl script at a
>shell prompt
> but not from the localhost apache server.
> Is there an environment variable that I am lacking? The CGI script has
> $dbh = DBI->connect("$data_source", "$username", "$password", { RaiseError => 1,
>PrintError => 1, AutoCommit => 1 });
>
> where are variables just as in the shell perl script.
>
> thanks for any replies,
> dale
>
