Sorry, I omitted that particular reason for possible failure, perhaps the enquirer
could tell us what OS they are running and if they are on machine of their own or
rented server space. Then we could make a start on why it is not running.
SunDog wrote:
> But that's the rub ... Change the first line ... isn't it Nigel ?
>
> if this is done in Windows, the script can get corrupted ...
>
> the result is ^M's all over the place ...
>
> When many of these scripts were first made available,
>
> changes were made directly on the servers , usually with
>
> telnet ... so the files were configured and saved in ISO format ...
>
> not always true today ...
>
> regards
>
> SunDog
> ==================================================
>
> At 05:36 PM 5/23/01 +0100, you wrote:
> >Dear all,
> >
> >Actually it does not depend on having an installation of Perl at all, let
> >alone a sane one. I am assuming
> >that the enquirer can take my supplied code, change the first line so that
> >it points to their Perl install
> >directory. Save it as test.pl in a suitable directory, change the
> >permissions and then execute it in their
> >browser or from the command line. If they can do this they will know that
> >they have got most of the set up
> >right and can then attempt to execute a 'real' script. Secondly if they do
> >not understand html how are they
> >going to customise and edit a Guest Book script until it works to their
> >satisfaction.
> >
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Nigel R
> >
> >"Randal L. Schwartz" wrote:
> >
> >> >>>>> "Nigel" == Nigel G Romeril <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >> Nigel> Try something like;
> >> Nigel> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> >> Nigel> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> >> Nigel> print "Hello world, it works!\n";
> >>
> >> Nigel> This should print a line of black text on a white background if
> >your path, permissions etc are OK
> >>
> >> Well, the real simplest is:
> >>
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> echo content-type: text/plain
> >> echo
> >> echo "hello world"
> >>
> >> which doesn't depend on a sane location of Perl installation,
> >> or even understanding HTML. :)
> >>
> >> If you can get exactly "hello world" from that, you're on your way...
> >> if you can't, you need to seek local authority to discover how things
> >> are set up.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
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> >
