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Stupid newbie question
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| Hi everyone.
I installed ActivePerl on my Windows 2000 machine, and everything seems OK,
except for one thing.
I can execture a script from the command line, and it works fine. If I try
to point my browser to it, it starts a command window and executes the
script. I do not get any output to my browser.
Is it necessary to be running a webserver to get Perl to output to my
browser? If not, what step(s) might I have missed?
Joe
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| Michael Capone 2004-05-22, 11:31 am |
| <ikvsabre@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<E9idncd4De1l3O3dRVn-gw@comcast.com>...
> Hi everyone.
>
> I installed ActivePerl on my Windows 2000 machine, and everything seems OK,
> except for one thing.
> I can execture a script from the command line, and it works fine. If I try
> to point my browser to it, it starts a command window and executes the
> script. I do not get any output to my browser.
>
> Is it necessary to be running a webserver to get Perl to output to my
> browser? If not, what step(s) might I have missed?
>
> Joe
Hi Joe,
Bad news; you will need to be running a web server in order to get
perl to output to the browser. You can throw IIS on your Win2K box;
if you do, re-install ActiveState so that it can auto-configure IIS to
recognize perl scripts.
Good luck!
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