running cgi in NT

[Alan Stewart]

~sdpm~
On 5 Feb 2001, at 18:04, Florez, Nestor wrote:

> ~sdpm~
> OK guys,
> 
> I have not done a cgi in a long time and never on a pc.  I am trying to
> display the environment variables in a web page, but everytime I run it, NT
> ask me to save it or run it.  I say run it and it opens a separate window
> and it runs it.
> 
> I am using apache server.   Has anyone ran into this problem before?
> 

I assume the server is on the NT box also, but it really doesn't 
matter. The server doesn't know that it is a CGI script, so it is 
simply doing a download. The NT browser then offers the choice of 
saving or running.

You need to either put the CGI script into a server directory in 
which Apache considers anything there to be a CGI executable 
(typical default directory is cgi-bin) or configure Apache to treat all 
files of that type to be executable.

If your Apache is an NT binary "out-of-the-box", CGI may not be 
enabled. Check your ScriptAlias and AddHandler directives. Also, 
the ScriptInterpreterSource directive decides whether perl.exe is 
found from the #! line at the beginning of the script (like UNIX) or by 
NT associations (assuming you made one).


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