On 05/05/00, ""Charlie Delingpole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote:
> How do I get my perl scripts to run clientside - i.e on my windows 98 pc,
but not through the command line, i.e through internet explorer?
Thanks in advance
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(acknowledged - lamer question)
Your first task is to get a web server installed and configured on your
local machine. Apache is a good choice, but there are other free ones.
Next you basically interface with a Perl script through some kind of form
or link. However, since you are going to be going through a web server, you
use a real URL to point to your script. Your local machine has an IP
address of 127.0.0.1, so if you have a cgi-bin folder set up under your
main httpd "root" directory, with a Perl script named hello.pl, you could
link to it like this:
<a href="http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/hello.pl">Hello World</a>
Of course the script has to generate an HTML page to display, but that's
just a bunch of print statements. Hope this helps. An excellent book to get
is O'Reilly's "CGI Programming on the World Wide Web" by Shishir
Gundavaram.
--
Amer Neely, Softouch Information Services
www.softouch.on.ca
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