Kevin, thanks for the suggestion. However, the association is already set
up. I'm using the same ActivePerl from ActiveState. All my perl files with
.pl have a little yellow cute symbols which mean the association is there
already.
Amy
----- Original Message -----
From: "kevin seguin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: CGI perl on Windows
> i would guess the problems you are running into are related to .pl file
> types not being associated with the perl executable. what distribution
> of perl are you using? it's been a while... but the last time i
> installed perl on windows, i used the active state dist
> (http://www.activestate.com/) and i believe the installer set up the
> association. generally, perl dist's on windows have at the very least a
> script that will set up this association. i suppose you could also
> create the association yourself, by right-clicking on a .pl file,
> selecting "Open with...", then selecting the perl exe and checking the
> "Always use this program to open these files" checkbox.
>
> Amy Roh wrote:
> >
> > Was anyone able to run CGI perl scripts on Windows via Apache
> > successfully? I couldn't get it to work even though I have perl
> > interpreter installed on my windows machine. I can run perl scripts
> > fine on command line but not through CGI using Apache. I couldn't find
> > any docs on Apache limiting this restriction on Windows either.
> >
> > As I am concluding CGI feature addition to Tomcat 4, I'm having problem
> > with running perl scripts via Runtime.exec() on Windows. It works fine
> > on Unix, however, I can't seem to create process using the perl
> > interpreter. I get IOException error=193 which means "not a valid Win32
> > application." Perl interpreter is in my PATH, and works fine on command
> > line. But why not using Runtime.exec()?
> >
> > What's the correct behavior for Apache? If Apache allows this
> > limitation on Windows, then I guess it's okay to have the same
> > limitation running CGI on tomcat as well. I'm thinking that not many
> > people use CGI perl on Windows.
> >
> > Amy
>
