It would be more helpful if you provide a direct link to your form: http://www.hamidapharma.com/form.html and to note that the error you are getting is:
'D:\WWWRoot\hamidapharmacom\www\cgi-bin\search.cgi' script produced no
+ output

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. This is on IIS-5.0, which I'm not really familiar with. Maybe someone who is familiar with it can say whether this indicates a script problem or a server configuration problem and how you look at the error logs on IIS.

You can (should) install Perl on your own windows machine so that you can debug your script. Get it from ActiveState. Then you can test your script from the command line: "perl -c search.pl" which will tell you if you have any syntax errors.

It looks like your base directory should be:

my $basedir = 'D:\WWWRoot\hamidapharmacom\www';

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but that won't give the error you're getting. It looks like most of your site files end in ".htm" instead of ".html", so you'll need to change that too.

In reply to Re: simple search script by Thelonius
in thread simple search script by thebeginner

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