Also, make sure that the .pl file that you're going to run has the proper permissions set. Generally speaking, if you run a chmod 0755 on the file, that is good enough for most purposes. If you don't, your file won't run.
Also, if you plan to print output to a browser, be sure to put the line print "Content-type: text/html\n"; in before any other print statements, or the browser won't understand in which format to display the content!
Hope this helps...
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Also, if you get more in depth with CGI programming, check out CGI.pm because it is a VERY useful module, that comes with Perl anyways, and is used mainly for if you start to work with CGI forms. It also can parse, and do a ton of other useful stuff, but just check out the documentation s/if/when you decide to use it!
Hope this helps!
Andy Summers
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You should have a cgi-bin directory set up through apache. Put the script in there and just have the URL be www.mymachine.com/cgi-bin/HelloWorld.pl and that should work just fine.
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See my CGI Help Guide for a good rundown. You will also probably get some good mileage from New Monks or if you like it really brief New Monks Info Page
cheers
tachyon
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