Re: How to configure Apache for running perl scripts.

You have to configure Apache to handle Perl scripts. This might be a good place to start before you go showing off your source code :).

You also need to print out valid HTTP headers before you can print any web content. Something your tiny script does not do.

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
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or even better:

use strict;

use CGI;
my $q = CGI->new();
print $q->header("text/html");
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Re^2: How to configure Apache for running perl scripts. by munu (Novice) on Aug 06, 2004 at 14:24 UTC
Now I have added the lines you have specified.. But now it is telling that "you do not have permission to access a.pl on this server". BUT I DID "chmod 777 a.pl". In /httpd/logs/errlog file it is mentioned that "optionsExecCGI is off in this directory /var/www/html1/a.pl" suEXEC mechanism is enabled	[reply]
Re^3: How to configure Apache for running perl scripts. by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Aug 06, 2004 at 14:29 UTC
It is probably the permissions on the directory. You do not want the program to be rwx by the world, 755 should be sufficient - also with suExec it will protest at running things that appear to be owned by someone other than the user the script will be run at. /J\	[reply]