in reply to newbie writing a counter

None of us will have a single idea what's wrong with it until you tell us ... It looks good to me. I could give you a number of Perl style suggestions, but everything looks good from this end.

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Re: You have to tell us what's going wrong before we can help you.
by jrbush82 (Initiate) on Aug 07, 2001 at 01:08 UTC

      Does the script run properly when you go to /cgi-bin/counter/counter.cgi versus pulling it in through SSI?

      Does the script run properly from the command line?

      Do you have access to the web server logs? If so, can you copy the error you see there?