I believe that PWS requires that you place all CGIs in its own scripts
directory, unless you explicitly set your preferences otherwise. As long as
the scripts are in the correct place and PWS is running, chances are that
your 500 errors are a result of something else. On Windows, the shebang line
is almost a frivolity - as long as the script has a .pl or .cgi extension
(and you have .cgi associated with perl.exe), it should run. I'm not
suggesting to get rid of that line, because it would be bad style - but
Win32 doesn't really care about it.
Some advice:
- Use Carp and send fatals to the
browser. You're not going to have
helpful error logs with PWS on
Win98, so printing the errors to
the browser can help you decipher
some of them.
- If you have to do this on Win98
(shudder), then download a Win32
copy of Apache 1.3.6 and use that.
It's a better server, it's free,
it's more configurable than PWS,
it's stable, and it will be easier
to make your sites portable to
other platforms.
- Make sure the shopping cart script
is made to be portable to Win32
computers. It may try to do things
like send e-mailed receipts using
sendmail rather than a Windows-based
mailer. The only way to really tell
what's going on and *why* you're
getting 500 errors is to see what
those errors are. Perl and Apache
make a great combo in reporting
why errors happen, so I am once
again suggesting the use of Apache
and the sh*tcanning of PWS. :)
Scot Robnett
inSite Internet Solutions
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of m.
forster
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 7:51 AM
To: Perl Users
Subject: Getting cgis to work
Hello. I am a complete newbie to perl (though familiar with other languages,
net and otherwise) and need some advice on getting perl cgis to work at all.
I have downloaded a shopping cart implementation from an Internet site and
cannot get anything other than "500 server errors".
My problem is this - I have set up the "personal web server" which comes
with Windows '98 and am using #!<path> to point the cgis at perl. I have 2
or 3 questions I am seeking the answers to:
1) Will perl cgis work with the Windows web server so long as I have a perl
interpreter somewhere on my machine?
2) If so, can I just point the cgis with #!<path> or do I need to do
something else?
3) I have downloaded and installed ActivePerl from O'Reilly's web site. I
received a .msi file which I used by running it to install perl. Do I point
the cgis to the perl.exe folder or the ActivePerl.msi folder?
Thanks in advance.
Mark Forster
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