PERL CGI Beginners - Getting started on standalone Windows machine

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Getting started on standalone Windows machine

Mary Anderson

2005-10-14, 6:55 pm

Hi all,

I have perl cgi installed successfully on my windows machine. I would
like to write a perl cgi program and display it in the browser on my own
Windows XP machine. To this end, I followed instructions in L. Stein's
book and created a registry ScriptMap called .pl of type REG_SZ with value
'C:\perl\bin\perl.exe %s %s'. The value is the correct one for my system.

However, when I open a .pl cgi file (known to work, because I can open it
OK with the DZSoft editor) in the browser, the perl interpreter is not
called and all I get is the text file displayed in the browser window.

Is it possible to view the file in a browser on my system? Or must I
have a web page on the server across campus and ftp the files there every
time I want to do something?

Thanks

Mary

Zentara

2005-10-15, 6:55 pm

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:58:43 -0700 (PDT), mfanderson@ucdavis.edu (Mary
Anderson) wrote:

>
>Hi all,
>
> I have perl cgi installed successfully on my windows machine. I would
>like to write a perl cgi program and display it in the browser on my own
>Windows XP machine. To this end, I followed instructions in L. Stein's
>book and created a registry ScriptMap called .pl of type REG_SZ with value
>'C:\perl\bin\perl.exe %s %s'. The value is the correct one for my system.
>
>However, when I open a .pl cgi file (known to work, because I can open it
>OK with the DZSoft editor) in the browser, the perl interpreter is not
>called and all I get is the text file displayed in the browser window.
>
> Is it possible to view the file in a browser on my system? Or must I
>have a web page on the server across campus and ftp the files there every
>time I want to do something?

You need a http server, like Apache, in order for your cgi script to
work.

You can google for "apache for windows" and get it, then read
the setup instructions.

Then you can test your script locally, with
http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/yourscript.cgi
or
http://localhost/cgi-bin/yourscript.cgi

I use linux, so maybe someone will have better information about
running cgi on windows, but basically you want to run a server on your
"localhost".

Every computer has a "local ip number" 127.0.0.1 and it is usually
setup to be named "localhost".

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andrmcg

2005-10-16, 6:55 pm

As Zentara points out, you have to run the file on a web server

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