aalneyperl:

To answer your questions:

1) If you don't use a webserver, then you'll need to put the resulting output file on your machine and point the browser at that file, e.g., "file:///C:/WWWTemp/foo.html".

2) You can run your perl program manually (such as from a DOS window) to regenerate your html file. If it's a simple status monitoring page, just run it as a scheduled job periodically. Then make a bookmark to your local status page, and you can check it whenever you like.

3) HTML::Template tutorial is going to show you how to use it. It's a tool that lets you make HTML documents. It's not going to show you how to deliver the documents. It's a totally different job...

4) You can place the files anywhere you like. The perl/cgi-bin is a convention used for web servers (as far as I know ... I've never made a perl web app before). If you're creating your own, you can make your own conventions.

FYI: You could make it an active document such that you could have an HTML document on your machine, and have a bit of VBScript (if you're using IE) call your perl script to do the job.

Hope this helps!

...roboticus

In reply to Re: Help with HTML:Template by roboticus
in thread Help with HTML:Template by aalneyperl

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