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 l
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 .
On a Linux machine,
open up the script ... with Fox-Editor
Look for ^M 's remove them
If you have edited or configured this script using Windoze,
the CR\ LF is not compatible with New Line on ISO machines ...
regards
SunDog
==
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 permis
> "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 et
Try something like;
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello world, it works!\n";
This should print a line of black text on a white background if your path, permissions
etc are OK
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Sally (Kevin?),
>
> sounds like somthing in your webser
Hi Sally (Kevin?),
sounds like somthing in your webserver cgi-setup is wrong..
perhaps your path to perl is wrong in the script being called?
Or you haven't edited any relevant bits of the code for file locations etc..
I am have never used Matt's Scripts, but have you checked that your webserve
Has anybody used Matts guestbook?
I've tried using several versions (I thought they were by different people
until I got into the code) and each one has the same problem.
The HTML pages work fine, but when the links point to the perl bits I get an
internal server error that looks like:
Internal S
