exec CGI

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to print out a page in HTML via my CGI script.

<!--#exec cgi="catdisplay.pl"-->
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The above is nested inside a herdoc statement and in the source code of the browser, it shows that line. It never executes, it just appears as an HTML comment in the source code. I know this catdisplay.pl script is in the same directory as the script that's calling it.

Anyone know why it's not working?

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Re: exec CGI by derby (Abbot) on Jun 07, 2008 at 01:27 UTC
You appear to mixing up apache's Server Side Include's with CGI. If you're executing a CGI to generate the heredoc, why not just execute the catdisplay.pl within the cgi script? -derby	[reply]
Re: exec CGI by moritz (Cardinal) on Jun 07, 2008 at 07:32 UTC
It probably doesn't work because your server isn't configured to process SSI directives in script output. If your first CGI script also ends in `.pl` and you have at least Apache 2.0 (Apache 1.3 can't do that IIRC) you can add this line to your server config or .htaccess file: `AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .pl` [download] Then it should work. But beware of infinite recursion through mutual inclusion of scripts, i.e. when a.pl includes b.pl and the other way round.	[reply] [d/l] [select]