I am brand new in trying to learn perl. I have downloaded MacPerl. I am
currently doing an online class trying to learn perl basics. The problem
I'm having is that the information I create doesn't seem to be working for
me. The examples used in this online course are *supposed* to work. I have
used bbedit to create text files to put into my cgi-bin. I have also used
MacPerl & "save as" cgi script. I have double-checked my shebang line &
verified it to be correct with the ISP. I have double checked permissions
after I FTP. I am at a loss.
The first script I uploaded, which wasn't working at the time I uploaded
it...I sent an email to support at my hosting site. The guy said he put it
through pico & that it worked fine. Now I'm confused. Since I know that it
worked for him when he put it through pico...am I supposed to do that each
time too? I was assuming that I could use macperl (or bbedit?) to write
perl code & upload it to my cgi-bin & it should work. My hosting site
*supposedly* doesn't support troubleshooting for perl (even though they
helped last time). I'm just wondering if anyone has any ideas of what I'm
doing wrong...or what I'm overlooking. I'm getting quite frustrated when I
get server errors when I'm trying out a script. <sigh>
Any help would be very much appreciated!
