Re: [Sheflug] Trying to be a standalone server but failing

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

Depends whether you've set the type of the file up right. CGI programs
need to be in the right folder (often, programs outside /cgi-bin/ are not
executable, for security reasons), they need to be chmod a+x (for a very
insecure CGI ;) and you need to make sure it is executed by the PERL
interpreter (i.e., #!/bin/perl , or something similar, must be the first
line of the program). Forget Apache, that's not where the problem is -
from the sounds of it, your httpd is working fine.

Cheers,

Alex.


On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Jonathan Machell wrote:

> I think the subject says it all.  I'm getting into Perl and CGI things and want
> my computer to be a standalone server so that I can execute Perl via Netscape. 
> However, Netscape just displays the source code for any programs that I try and
> execute.  I must be doing something very wrong.
> 
> I've checked /etc/rc.config and START_HTTPD is set to "yes".  What else do I
> need to do?  Is something wrong with Netscape?  Probably not.  Hmmmm.  Anyone
> any ideas?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Jonathan.
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