I'm sorry if I am annoying you, but I am new at this.

I installed Apache and I am now able to access the files using the 'http://abc/abc' format. However, whenever I tried to run the Perl script, I get asked if I want to "save it as".

So, I went and tried to edit 'httpd.conf'. I put the following lines in hoping that it would allow me to run the scripts:

<Directory /myfolder>
Options ExecCGI
</Directory>

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But that didn't work. I even put in the following instead: 

<Directory /myfolder>
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -Include
SetHandler cgi-script .cgi
<IfDefine PERL>
AddHandler perl-script .pl
</IfDefine>
</Directory>

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...or something like that(I'm writing off the top of my head). Failure once again. Can you please help me out?

-- zdog (Zenon Zabinski)
   Go Bells!! '¿'

Update: I finally got it after hacking into 'httpd.conf' for three hours. Thank you for everybody's help.

In reply to (zdog) Re: (2) Linux - Perl problem by zdog
in thread Linux - Perl problem by zdog

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