Perl Files Downloading Instead of Running

emil2k · 12-15-2007, 11:28 PM

I have set up a development machine at home and I'm trying to move perl files that I know work from my HostGator account to my home account, but when I placed the files and proceded with the installation and matched the same permissions as on my previous host, for some reason when I try to view the perl file via browser it tries to download it instead of running it.

This is what I have in my httpd.conf and this is a Debian Etch with Apache2

Code:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/project/trunk/cgi-bin/
<Directory /var/www/project/trunk/cgi-bin>
        AllowOverride None
        Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Directory>

Can somebody tell me what I should do

j-ray · 12-16-2007, 04:48 PM

welcome!
a quick guess: +ExecCGI

maybe you have to specify a handler with

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
in httpd.conf then restart the server

(to explain the server which file extensions should be processed by the parser)

emil2k · 12-16-2007, 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by j-ray

welcome!
a quick guess: +ExecCGI

maybe you have to specify a handler with

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
in httpd.conf then restart the server

(to explain the server which file extensions should be processed by the parser)

Tried both is still downloading instead of running.

On my hostgator account I actually had a perl file with out an extension that would be executed as perl, is the AddHandler part going to detour that?

j-ray · 12-17-2007, 03:44 AM

another guess is
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/project/trunk/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/var/www/project/trunk/cgi-bin">

maybe the quotes are necessary not only recommended? i'm not sure but could possibly be the reason...

emil2k · 12-17-2007, 12:22 PM

I got it all fixed figures that I just needed to install some modules the file was downloading instead of displaying a 500 error, I checked the apache2 logs and it was displaying the error that it was not finding the modules after I got the modules it ran.