in reply to no webserver(apache)? no problem! test .cgi with Plack/plackup

++ I'm commenting mostly just to bump this excellent piece of advice.

Since port is rarely important and I like to use this idiom in addition to running a traditional webserver on port 80, I'd shorten it to use the default port 5000–

plackup -L Shotgun -MPlack::App::WrapCGI -e "Plack::App::WrapCGI->new(script => shift)" [cgi]

–which lends itself to an alias– 

alias pcgi='plackup -Ilib -L Shotgun -MPlack::App::WrapCGI -e "Plack::
+App::WrapCGI->new(script => shift)"'

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Update: anonymous monk that replied is quite correct. The code, as is, is broken.

Update: And a million years later... alias works in bash, at least.

alias pcgi='plackup -L Shotgun -MPlack::App::WrapCGI -e "Plack::App::W
+rapCGI->new(script => \$ARGV[0])"'

pcgi some.cgi
HTTP::Server::PSGI: Accepting connections at http://0:5000/
...

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Re^2: no webserver(apache)? no problem! test .cgi with Plack/plackup
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 22, 2011 at 04:08 UTC
    FWIW, that doesn't work for me 
    Magic number checking on storable string failed at blib\lib\Storable.p
+m (autosplit into blib\lib\auto\Storable\thaw.al) line 421, at c:/per
+l/site/5.12.2/lib/Plack/Loader/Shotgun.pm line 25

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    $ pmvers Plack Storable
Plack: 0.9976
Storable: 2.25

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    It has to do with string-eval and @ARGV being emptied
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