Hello, I just subscribed to this list today hoping I might find someone who could help me over some of my initial hurdles with learning to work with Perl and cgi- scripts. All I know about the subject I learned today in browsing the web, and I'm finding that all of the sites I go to assume a certain level of knowledge. Or else they say to ask my system or website administrator, which is very helpful since that is me! Even the archives of this mailing list are way over my head.
I am in a small public library and we have our own webserver running Windows NT and IIS. I downloaded and installed active Perl (what's the difference between active Perl and regular Perl??) in the d:\perl directory on our server. The root of our webserver is at d:\website\extranet and I have created a cgi-bin directory under that. I'm not sure what else I need to do to get perl to work on our website. Also, we had an older version of perl installed at d:\website\perl by a previous administrator, and I'm not sure if there is going to be some kind of a conflict between the two. I need to learn how to get perl activated and working. Once that is done I can proceed on my own to learn how to write and edit scripts. Is there someone else out there who be interested in a bit of hand-holding today while I get this going? Bill Teschek Webmaster Lane Memorial Library 2 Academy Ave. Hampton, NH 03842 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (603)-926-3368 (603)-926-1348 (fax) http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]