This is a web server/file system issue.

My first instinct is to tell you to migrate to another Unix based web hoster... ;)

You need to ensure that your Apache config file allows www execute privileges on the script directory ( presumably cgi-bin )

Next, you need to ensure that your OS can determine what type of file you are trying to run ( afaik, Windows doesn't read into a file, so it can't read the shebang line ).

From what you've said, it sounds like an Apache handler issue if it forces a download. Apache does not know how to render the non-HTML file, so it offers it up as a download.

Do you have to register .pl and like files by extension in Apache on Windows?

Steve

In reply to Re: Why does this download the script file instead of displaying the results? by stevieb
in thread Why does this download the script file instead of displaying the results? by thenodemaster

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