using perl (verbose?)

jsheffie · 09-06-2005, 12:42 PM

Hi,

I have two linux boxes. one fedora core 2 and the other SuSE 9.3

Fedora has apache 2.0.51, Perl 5.8.3
SuSE has apache 2.0.53, and Perl 5.8.6

I set up an identical website on both systems, however, the fedora box fails to display the information correctly. I have tested this using firefox on linux/mac/xp and ie on mac/xp. They all produce the same issue.

When served off the fedora box the entire perl script is shown including commented lines.
When served off the SuSE box the page is displayed correctly.

Example: The output displayed by a web browser...

Server1
SuSE:

Hello, world!

Server2
Fedora:

#!/usr/bin/perl # hello.pl -- my first perl script! print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print <<"EOF";
Hello, world!
EOF

The actual script:
#!/usr/bin/perl

# hello.pl -- my first perl script!

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print <<"EOF";
<HTML>

<HEAD>
<TITLE>Hello, world!</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
<H1>Hello, world!</H1>
</BODY>

</HTML>
EOF

Is it possible that is an effect of a verbose setting? Could this be caused by apache or perl or is there a scripting error? Thanks for any info

-Me

acid_kewpie · 09-06-2005, 01:01 PM

this just looks like you are not actually interpretting the script through cgi at all. it's not verbose or anything, it's just showing the entire contents of the file. this will be down to your apache config, but i know very little about cgi execution.

david_ross · 09-06-2005, 01:18 PM

It just looks like the perl script isn't being parsed. Check your webserver settings to make sure it is being executed.