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Dear Monks,

Using Template Toolkit, I can only get a blank page to display after processing my template. Here is my simple template:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head><title>Test</title></head>
<body>

  <div>From template:</div>
  <div>[% message %]</div>

</body>
</html>
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Here is the CGI program that tries to send that template to the browser:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Template;

my $tname = 'templates/form.html';

my $vars = {
   message  => "Hello World\n"
};

my $template = Template->new({
    INCLUDE_PATH => '/Users/7stud/perl_programs/cgi_projects/1proj')
});

$template->process($file, $vars)
    or die "*MY* template process failed: ", $template->error(), "\n";
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That program is essentially copied from the docs.

Here is my directory structure:

1proj/
---cgi-bin/
 ------create_form.pl
-------simple_cgi.pl
---serverHTTP.py
---templates/
-------footer.html
-------form.html
-------header.html
 ------xform.html

2 directories, 8 files
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Here is create_form.pl:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Template;

my $tname = 'templates/form.html';

my $vars = {
   message  => "Hello World\n"
};

my $template = Template->new({
    INCLUDE_PATH => '/Users/7stud/perl_programs/cgi_projects/1proj')
});

$template->process($file, $vars)
    or die "*MY* template process failed: ", $template->error(), "\n";
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The url I'm using in my browser is:

http://localhost:8000/cgi-bin/create_form.pl
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According the the Template Toolkit docs:

The process() method is called to process a template. The first parameter indicates the input template as one of: a filename relative to INCLUDE_PATH, if defined;.... docs

I am able to send a request to the program simple_cgi.pl, which does not use a template, and it works as expected. The url I use for that request is similar:

http://localhost:8000/cgi-bin/simple_cgi.pl
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Here is simple_cgi.pl:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw{ fatalsToBrowser };

my $cgi = CGI->new;

print $cgi->header,
      $cgi->start_html,
      $cgi->div('hello'),
      $cgi->end_html;
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What am I doing wrong?

In reply to Template Toolkit: template paths, INCLUDE_PATH, error by 7stud

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