Is this the only way available? How can one configure apache not to do this?

Background to the question: sometimes you need to migrate whole sets of CGI scripts from a Unix box to a Win32 box, e.g., to a demo laptop. Now, imagine on that Unix box perl was in /usr/local/bin/perl - well, you won't have that one on your Win32 box. What to do now apart from changing the interpreter location in every script?

The only solution I know of is copying the perl interpreter and some other files (DLLs) to a new directory /usr/local/bin, and then setting the PERL5LIB environment variable in the apache config with a SetEnv directive for the CGI directory, because otherwise the interpreter will not find its libraries, as the ActivePerl binary of perl has @INC compiled in as ".". Someone else suggested to modify the registry entry for the binary to avoid the SetEnv part, but the principal problem stays the same.

BTW, in IIS, you can configure which interpreter is used based on the extension of the script - the usual Win32 way of deciding this. Is there anything like this in apache?

Christian Lemburg
Brainbench MVP for Perl
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In reply to RE: Answer: How does apache under NT find the perl interpreter? by clemburg
in thread How does apache under NT find the perl interpreter? by clemburg

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