First of all, Many Monks will probably tell you that cgi-bin Is Not Perl. Often Perl is used to write scripts that use the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), but that is mere coincidence.

For us to be of much help, you should probably start by determining whether perl exists on the hypermart web server machine. Do you know what operating system is on there? Do they give you shell access or only ftp access? Your best bet is probably to ask the Hypermart people how to use their cgi-bin.

If it's an NT-hosted web server, it might not have Perl at all. If it's on a form of UNIX, it probably does. Type which perl to see where perl lives. From there, the basic procedure (this is a very generic answer, but it was a pretty general question...) is to write a perl script which prints out HTTP headers followed by HTML code. In practice there are Many ways to accomplish this, and looking in the Categorized Questions and Answers section about CGI programming will give you a lot of clues.

If you have a more specific question I'd be glad to attempt a more specific answer.

Alan

Update: Okay, since you stated they give you no help on using cgi-bin, maybe asking them isn't the best way to figure out how to use it...

In reply to RE: getting a cgi script working by ferrency
in thread getting a cgi script working by mhorvat42

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