The suggestions here are all well and good, but IMO the correct way is to develop the script on a local server, taking note of the various warnings that appear in regular operation, and either eliminating their cause (like mentioning variables in void context to get rid of only used once warnings) or selectively placing { no warnings 'whichever_warning_type_crops_up'; '...'; } (or for older versions, { local $^W = 0; '...'; } ) blocks around any code you know to cause warnings during regular operation.

Bottom line, unless the script dies horribly, running it should never produce warnings. (This is in fact a rule I stick to even outside of CGI scripts - the only time I disregard it is in throw-away scripts written for a single task at hand.)

In reply to Re: Running with warnings on a remote server by Aristotle
in thread Running with warnings on a remote server by Elliott

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