Running a perl script from a html page

Ankit.11nov has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, I want to run a perl script from a html web page.

<html>
<head>
<title>Run your first Perl script</title>
</head>
<body>
Click on <a href="D:\workspace\run.pl">this link</a> to run your first
+ Perl script.
</body>
</html>
[download]

But when I am clicking on the link it is downloading the file instead of running it.
Please suggest what can be done here.

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Re: Running a perl script from a html page by Utilitarian (Vicar) on Dec 10, 2009 at 09:47 UTC
The url you have supplied is local, and so will just pull the file off your D: drive. you need to install a webserver, I'd suggest Apache, but that's cos I like it Configure a CGI directory in your webserver Copy your script to this directory Edit your page so that the link points to the absolute HTTP path to your script the info above is readily available on-line, however your question indicates a lack of understanding of the HTTP and CGI protocols, you should do a bit of reading to familiarise yourself with these. That said learning by doing is also to be recommended ;) `print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Running a perl script from a html page by Sinistral (Monsignor) on Dec 10, 2009 at 13:21 UTC
Everything Utilitarian says is true about what's needed to get a web server (Apache, which I concur is most excellent) running to server up Perl CGI code. However, if you want to get started very quickly and avoid any configuration, might I suggest XAMPP to give you a single EXE that you can run to give you web server, Perl, and ready-to-run WAMP (Windows/Apache/MySQL/Perl+PHP) stack.	[reply]
Re: Running a perl script from a html page by desemondo (Hermit) on Dec 10, 2009 at 09:14 UTC
sounds like you need to tell your webserver that your script run.pl needs executable permissions. this varies a bit depending on your webserver... *nix IIS - (see step 3)	[reply]
Re^2: Running a perl script from a html page by Ankit.11nov (Acolyte) on Dec 10, 2009 at 09:32 UTC
Can you please help as to how to set this web server permissions.	[reply]
Re^3: Running a perl script from a html page by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 10, 2009 at 09:43 UTC
Did you read the links provided? You've not told us what webserver you are using (IIS, Apache or something else?). For Apache see Setting up Perl/CGI with Windows from the tutorials section. For IIS read the link above or check out the IIS documentation.	[reply]
Re: Running a perl script from a html page by Anonymous Monk on Dec 10, 2009 at 09:24 UTC
`D:\workspace\run.pl` is not a URL, so a webserver would never try to execute it.	[reply] [d/l]