Installing Perl on Apache??

cstone · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2002 5:20 pm Post subject:

I know this isn't the best place to look for web server tips

but I thought I'd try my luck here anyway.

Can anybody tell me what I need to do to get perl scripts running on an Apache web server??

Here's what I have now:
-Apache running a working webserver.
-ActivePerl is working from the command prompt
-A WinXP server

However when I try to run a Perl script from the server, it just shows me the script itself. Grrr. What do I need to configure??

Anybody?

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Robert E. Lee · Registered User Joined: 18 Jul 2001 Posts: 2904

In your http.conf file , around line 250 you should see this line..

### Section 2: 'Main' server configuration

add these 2 lines below it

AddHandler cgi-script .pl
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

Remember to restart Apache or it won't work.

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LanceMantis · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2002 5:50 pm Post subject:

Ah yes, Perl, the language I've never bothered to learn. I'm not quite sure why though. Guess I'm not an internet coder.

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cstone · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2002 6:14 pm Post subject:

Whew, thanks Rob - well at least I'm getting different errors now. It seems I don't have permission to view the file now - I'm guessing it has something to do with access.conf? Chmod maybe (or maybe that's just for unix servers)

Thanks again,
-cstone

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cstone · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2002 10:35 pm Post subject:

Any more thoughts on this?

OmegaSiN · Registered User Joined: 05 Nov 2001 Posts: 712

ummm...............sorry, don't ask me out computer stuff, i'm no good at it

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Robert E. Lee · Registered User Joined: 18 Jul 2001 Posts: 2904

The access.conf is pretty much obsolete. CHMOD is for *nix servers only. What errors are you getting? Internal Server Errors?

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cstone · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2002 7:40 am Post subject:

From the error log:

(2)No such file or directory: couldn't spawn child process: C:/apache/apache/htdocs/hlmaps/test.pl

The contents of test.pl is just
print "Hello World";
And I have that directory set to Options ExecCGI.

I'm pretty sure that I botched the perl installation by now. Do I need mod_perl or ActivePerl, or both?

Robert E. Lee · Registered User Joined: 18 Jul 2001 Posts: 2904

Did you try running it from your cgi-bin?

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cstone · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2002 5:30 pm Post subject:

I will try the cgi-bin, but if that doesn't work I'm just gonna forget about it. It's installed on our regular webserver, but not our game server. Maybe I'll ask our network tech guy to get it set up.

I'm trying to install HLmaps btw, ever hear of it? Its supposed to give map statistics and some other cool stuff.

Thanks for all the help Rob,
-cstone

Warhammer · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2002 5:41 pm Post subject:

CGI scripts have to print out the HTTP headers before they can print the "real" output otherwise you will get a 500 server error. The bare minimum you want to set in your http headers is something like this:

print "Content-type: text/htmlnn"

You can also use text/plain if it's not HTML code. You can set cookies, content expiration times, and all kinds of stuff in the headers.

Now I'm not sure how you get Windows to treat the file as an executable. Perhaps you need to associate .pl files with the perl interpreter? Then it should open by "executing" the file, which is what the web server will do.

Warhammer · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2002 5:45 pm Post subject:

On another note, you should not need mod_perl. Last I knew, that's a way of putting perl code into an HTML document so that the web server parses the perl code on the fly and creates the dynamic output. However I couldn't find documentation on it at the apache site, so I may be confusing it with ePerl or something else.