Running Perl and CGI on any Win32 platform

cecil36 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: ⭐ (cgi programming)

My employer was looking at redoing one of our client/server applications to have a web browser interface for the client. I was thinking that Perl would be an obvious choice for handling the back end work to produce the output file that the server needs. My question is that since many of our customers are using Win9x, NT, 2000, or XP in their environments, is there anything that exists in a Win32 environment that is easy to implement on an existing server that will allow for processing of CGI/Perl scripts?

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Re: Running Perl and CGI on any Win32 platform⭐ by rdfield (Priest) on Oct 30, 2002 at 11:08 UTC
The Activestate Win32 Perl distro, Apache and mod_perl used with CGI works very well on any Win32 platform. rdfield	[reply]
Re: Running Perl and CGI on any Win32 platform⭐ by thoglette (Scribe) on Oct 31, 2002 at 05:32 UTC
Try TinyWEB server Quoth the raven: TinyWeb is extremely small (executable file size is 53K), simple (no configuration other than through the command line) and fast (consumes minimum of system resources) Win32 daemon for regular (TCP/http) and secure (SSL/TLS/https) web servers. I use it, it works. QED. If you don't need the bother of setting up Apache then give this a go.	[reply]
Re: Running Perl and CGI on any Win32 platform⭐ by muba (Priest) on Mar 20, 2004 at 20:05 UTC
I'd also like to suggest the Xitami webserver. No configuration at all is required. It just runs after installation. You can config it, to make it fit your likes, but it's not needed.	[reply]
Re: Running Perl and CGI on any Win32 platform by jbodoni (Monk) on Mar 21, 2004 at 04:14 UTC
Sambar server is a breeze to install, and is admin'ed entirely via web interface.	[reply]
Re: Running Perl and CGI on any Win32 platform by lwicks (Friar) on Oct 05, 2004 at 11:07 UTC
Try this website: http://www.ricocheting.com/server/ A good step by step guide to installing Perl & Apache and getting it all working CGI style. I was particularly pleased to read the part about installing Perl into c:\usr\ so that your shebang line can be the same as on a Linux box and still work on your windows development machine.	[reply]
Re: Running Perl and CGI on any Win32 platform by shamanbehn (Initiate) on Dec 03, 2004 at 21:27 UTC
I would like to recommend the Xitami web server. I've used it on Win200, XP and 98ME boxes and it works well on all of these...	[reply]
Re: Running Perl and CGI on any Win32 platform by GhodMode (Pilgrim) on Dec 18, 2005 at 12:49 UTC
XAMPP works great. Apache, MySQL, Perl all perfectly configured with no fuss. Just install it and put your files in the document root and everything works. -- -- Ghodmode	[reply]
Re: Running Perl and CGI on any Win32 platform by Anonymous Monk on Dec 16, 2002 at 17:54 UTC
If your web server is going to be on one of the Win32 platforms, then install the Activestate version of perl. Install IIS 4 or 5 (5 for Windows 2000) and make sure under App Mappings pl or plx extensions are associated with PerlIS.dll. More info can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;245225&	[reply]
Re: Running Perl and CGI on any Win32 platform by Lytse Flap (Initiate) on Mar 14, 2005 at 15:05 UTC
There is a very neat editor called EngingSite. It´s got a build-in WebServer. You may use it 30 days for free and after that, it becomes a light-edition. I have no idea what light means, but untill now I´m very satisfied. http://www.enginsite.com	[reply]

Try TinyWEB server