CGI/Perl

indienick · 03-06-2006, 02:20 PM

I'm trying to set up a CGI script for a business website, and I'm testing them on my home computer before I upload them. Problem is, when I set the link in the html page like so <a href="./script.cgi?variable">link</a> and when I click on the link, I get an option to download the file, not view the output.

Do I need to set my box up as an Apache server to run CGI-scripts locally? Or am I just not doing something right in the script?

I tried a simple script:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello, world.\n";

But, again, running it, I get the download option.

theNbomr · 03-06-2006, 03:00 PM

The web server runs cgi scripts, not a web browser. In order to get the cgi script to execute, it must be installed in the cgi-bin directory of a running web server. Your link looks like it would point to a document directory, which is probably not correct, even where there is a running web server.

--- rod.

indienick · 03-06-2006, 03:16 PM

thanks for the reply man, but I figured it out. I threw the files into the appropriate folders in /var/www/ and everything's working smoothly now =)