[Melbourne-pm] interesting apache outcome

[Jacinta Richardson]

John Thornton wrote:
>        Though what is interesting is that if I go to the xammp explore and
> get into the cgi box there are two files: pearltest.cgi and cgi.cgi.
> 
>       If I put into the browser: http://localhost/cgi-bin/perltest.cgi
> 
>       then I get:
> 
>       GCI with MiniPerl
> CGI with MiniPerl is ready ...
> 
>       and if I put the cgi.cgi in instead of pearltest.cgi and the rest the
> same I get: 
> 
>   OK
> 
>   So I don't know. I have sort of got what I wanted in terms of getting the
> browser to use a cgi file to get a desired [I assume] outcome. It's just
> that when I make my own .pl files and put all the shebang stuff etc in the
> VTC tute, and then change it to a .cgi title and move into this same cgi
> file as used above, that I still a 404 error.

Create the following file and call it hello.cgi

-----------------
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI;

print CGI->headers(), "Hello";
------------------

put it in the same directory as perltest.cgi and cgi.cgi, so that if you "go to
xammp explore and get into the cgi box" there are now three files: perltest.cgi,
cgi.cgi and hello.cgi.

Then go to:   http://localhost/cgi-bin/hello.cgi


What happens?

             Jacinta

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