On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:28 AM, itshardtogetone < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > I use internet explorer 7.0 to browse the website. > I upload a simple script, helloworld.cgi, to my website but when I ran the > script by typing the url, www.myurl.com/cgi-bin/helloworld.cgi, instead of > executing the script, I was prompted to download the script. > What must I do. > Thanks Hi there, Well that is quite simple really who ever administrates your webserver will need to switch on the perl interpeter as it seems that is configured or not configured propperly. When it is configured correctly your webserver sees a request for a file ending in .cgi and executes the script using perl, directing the output to your browser. In your case the webserver sees a request for a file extension that it has no configuration for and sends the file to your browser resulting in your browser wanting to download the file. When you contact your webserver administrator simply explain the same thing as you did in this email and they will be able to help you, assuming that they allow the running of perl scripts on the webserver. Rob.
