cgi help

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Re: cgi help by marto (Cardinal) on May 19, 2010 at 20:02 UTC
Your question is really poorly worded. Perhaps you should contact atspace support, since they seem to be your hosting provider. You may also want to check out Web Programming from the tutorials section, and Ovid's CGI Course - Resurrected and Updated! if you're going to be working with Perl and CGI.	[reply]
Re: cgi help by SilasTheMonk (Chaplain) on May 19, 2010 at 20:07 UTC
I would have a look at this articles: CGI Programming. I'm surprised somebody has not come down on you with a very large RTFM. Actually I think I guess where you're coming from. You've rented some space on a fairly basic web server and you cannot work out how to get it going. I've been there. Sadly it all varies from company to company rather too much. So basically my advice would be to start very simple. Also search for advice on google using the name of your hosting provider. Also look round your file system on the webserver to find the cgi-bin directory. There should be a working test script of some sort there.	[reply]
Re: cgi help by Utilitarian (Vicar) on May 20, 2010 at 07:37 UTC
marto's advice above to contact atspace support, is wise, however it is probable that if you name the cgi scripts .pl or .cgi they will run (when you allow cgi execution in any folder you specify which file extensions are to be executed). The file also needs to executable. PS Ovid's course is an excellent introduction to writing your own CGI scripts. `print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."`	[reply] [d/l]