in reply to Re: XAMPP and Perl
in thread XAMPP and Perl

It might be a directory problem... Any way (direct or roundabout) that I can check where the proper directory might be? Since it's a home server, I don't have a cgi-bin file structure... maybe in Apache's httpd.conf?

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Re^3: XAMPP and Perl
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on May 21, 2008 at 19:30 UTC
    Checking the config file is a good start. Another place would be the defaults, usually found by executing the main executable with a -v option (win32 might call it /verbose or somesuch). Documentation is a third place. Apache's is unusually good.

    My criteria for good software:
    1. Does it work?
    2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
      I found this in the XAMPP control panel:

      PERL 5.8.8
      Apache module: PERL/2.0.3
      Extensions: .pl
      Document root: \htdocs\modperl\
      Configuration files: \apache\conf\perl.conf + \apache\conf\startup.pl


      Extensions: .cgi
      Document root: \cgi-bin\
      Configuration files: \apache\conf\httpd.conf

      So maybe create a CGI-bin folder there and try it?

      Apache configuration files and documentation had no info regarding this.