It is probably because you didn't instruct the browser well.
Add this at the top of your script:
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
or if you're using CGI.pm this:
print header (-type => 'text/html');
||> -----Original Message-----
||> From: Sumanth Sharma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
||> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 2:07 PM
||> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
||> Subject: Perl on Apache
||>
||> Hi All,
||>
||> Pls Bare with me If I am scratching some rudimental stuff here
||> I know perl lang Fundas. But...
||>
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||> -
||> [
||> Some Historical background for my problem ....
||> {History: I want a project management system, so
I plan
||> to use Twiki.
||> So, to I plan to use some Perl/CGI to manage this.
I have
||> Installed "Apache
||> 2.0" on D:\\ApacheGroup\Apache2". I have also
Installed
||> mod_perl over
||> Activestate 5.8.3 build 509 " }
||>
||> I have also configured loop-back i.e 127.0.0.1:80
||> as my web-server
||> ]
||>
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||> Coming to my Question,
||>
||> Now, I placed a file called host.pl, in the cgi-bin folder
||>
||> but when I invoke http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/host.pl
||> My browser tries to download this file.
||>
||> But I expected Apache/ or Perl to have executed this script.
||> [I have used Win2K pro SP4, ActiveState Perl 5.8.3 build 809, Apache
2.0, IE
||> 6.0, mod_perl 2.0]
||>
||> Where have I gone wrong ??
||> or
||> How do I get my Perl scripts running on the web-server
||> Pls help me.
||>
||>
||>
||> Thanks In Advance,
||> Sumanth
||>
||>
||>
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