in reply to Server error message

What Web server are you using? That would help us to better answer your question. If you're using Windows 2000, I suspect you are using IIS. If so, go to the Control Panel -> Administrative Tools - > Interet Information Services. On the results panel, right click on the Web site in question and select "Properties". That should tell you most of what you need to know about how your Web site is configured. Also, check your access logs to find out what the real path being accessed is.

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Re: Re: Server error message
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 09, 2003 at 18:30 UTC
    Thanks, Yes we do have IIS on our Windows 2000 Server.
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      If you are using IIS then you need to setup a specific virtual directory to the directory with your scripts in. You then need to map the .pl or .cgi extension to the perl interpreter as described in the docs. As you are in Win2000 you can do this via the application configuration button.

      You'll have to then stop and start the server but that should do it. One caveat is that you will have to remove the shebang line from any scripts you write (the first line starting with #!).

      HTH

      SP
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