Dear Perl Monks,

We have a newsfeed in our cgi-bin at:

http://64.176.72.84/cgi-bin/booksunlimited/pull_news.pl

I have placed the command
<--#exec cgi=/cgi-bin/booksunlimited/pull_news.pl -->
(second character on the command is ! but then doesn't show on this messageboard)

at:

http://64.176.72.84/booksunlimited/index.html

But it doesn't work. It doesn't show the newsfeed on the page like I want it. What are we doing wrong?

I have tried tinkering with the permissions to both the files/URLs, changed the directories, and also tried using the command in my index page, but it doesn't work.

Do you know why this might be?

Thank you very very much.

Nadeem Azam
http://www.litmania.com

In reply to CGI Command - Please help! by Anonymous Monk

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