Paul Kraus wrote: > nope that's the stumper. I use Perl all the time for business and just > to play around I wanted to mess with cgi. The non cgi stuff works fine. > Actually I can ran the cgi stuff from the command line just fine to.
let me get that straight: if the script has a .pl extension, your browser tries to download it even with the '?whatever' portion append at the end if the script has a .cgi extension, the source code of the script is displayed even with the '?whatever' portion append at the end if you run your scripts in a DOS windows with just its name like: c:\whatever>your_script.pl or: c:\whatever>your_script.cgi both runs fine. correct? david > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: david [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:49 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: RE: Cgi Win xp Perl >> >> >> Paul Kraus wrote: >> >> > same issues. If it's a pl file it tries to download. If its >> .cgi then >> > it just displays my code. >> > >> >> what happen if you type your cgi_script.pl in the DOS prompt? >> does Windos >> complain about not able to execute the script? if so, >> Windos(as well as >> IIS) probably doesn't know how to execute your *.pl file. you >> probably have >> to associate *.pl with your Perl binary. >> >> david >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
