Please note: I know nothing about Graphviz or webdot, except what I have read in the past five minutes

I don't think you need to use webdot. It looks to me like webdot is a set of CGI scripts that will produce images of graphs, but will also make things like image maps and allow you to specify where to go when clicking certain nodes, as well as other functionality. If you don't need these things, then don't use webdot.

Here is how I would get this to work, and how I've done it in the past with things like gnuplot. Within your HTML page, the image tag should point to the CGI script as its src attribute, including the needed parameters to tell it what to graph. It should look something like <img src="/cgi-bin/graphviz.pl?file=example.dot"/>. Then your CGI script should do something like the following: 

print "Content-Type: image/svg\n\n";

binmode stdout;

my $g = GraphViz->new();

# create graphviz stuff

print $g->as_svg;

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In reply to Re: Running graphviz via a web server by lostjimmy
in thread Running graphviz via a web server by eMBR_chi

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