I am fairly new to PERL but I have an issue that I have not been able to solve. The code I am working with was created by another person who no longer works with our company.

Issue: I have a set of PERL scripts that form several web pages. The code works perfectly fine on one system but on a different system, the code fails in different areas.

System information:

1) Both systems are running AIX 5.3 - 64 bit
2) Both systems are running PERL 5.8.2.61 and both systems are running the same version.
3) Both systems are running Apache 1.3.31-1
4) DNS has been fully tested effectively on both systems and desktop.
5) I have examined the enviroment on both systems and everything is the same. (%env in PERL and Unix environment)
6) I have checked teh Apache conf files and all files compare to be the same.
7) I have verified that all the files and directories (PERL and APACHE) on both servers have the same permissions and sizes.

Detail description of problem:

On the system that I am having issues, the following are the different reactions I am seeing:

1) If I use the name of the server to access the main web page, the system will not create cookies and security fails without the cookies. This occurs whether I use the short name or the fully qualified name.
2) If I use the IP address of the server to access the web page, the system will create the cookies and allow access to the rest of the web pages.
3) Even with the IP address being used, the system fails to recognize any check boxes that cause other web pages to activate.

Does anyone have any idea what could cause these issues or how I can track down why it re-acts differently on the two systems?

thanks for the assistance

In reply to Perl acting different on two machines by charlesg83

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