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Author Very basic question about running perl cgi on tomcat
Robert Kerry

2005-04-25, 3:56 pm

I changed the web.xml file and the .jar suffix as required, and create
a new directory WEB-INF/cgi/ under webapps/ directory, I put my
first.pl into that directory, and try to visit it using
http://localhost:8080/cgi/first.pl but it doesn't work. I've also
tried /cgi-bin/first.pl and something else, always give me HTTP 404
file not found error. What should I do? Thank you.

Robert.
Robert Kerry

2005-04-25, 8:55 pm

Chris,

Thanks. I'm not switching to apache http server.

Unfortunately the same thing happened again. I put the
first.pl in the /cgi-bin/ directory and try to access it via
http://localhost/cgi-bin/first.pl, it tells me that file not found.
I don't know what I should do for httpd.conf file. Thanks.

Robert.


On 4/25/05, Chris Devers <chris.devers@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/25/05, Robert Kerry <kerry.robert@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> You mean, what should you do aside from hope that Perl will just
> magically execute from within a *Java* application server ??
>=20
> Maybe I'm misinformed, but Tomcat is as far as I know only for running
> code written in Java (or weird hybrids like Jython).
>=20
> If you want to run Perl, why aren't you running Apache/CGI or Apache/mod_=

perl?
>=20
> --
> Chris Devers
>

Offer Kaye

2005-04-26, 8:57 am

On 4/25/05, Robert Kerry wrote:
> What should I do? Thank you.
>=20


You should use Google :-)
The first link returned by searching for "Tomcat" and "Perl":
http://www.ftponline.com/javapro/20...teden_03_18_03/

HTH,
--=20
Offer Kaye
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