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Installing a Script

 
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Installing a Script, In Perl
brandon99337
post 7 May, 2008 - 12:20 PM
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I have no idea about anything with perl but this script seemed very interesting.

Hosted on 1 free site it looks like this...

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But on the others it looks like this (view attachment errorpage)

It's the exact same code (view attachment auctionweaver1)

What's wrong?


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Attached File  errorpage.htm ( 98.07k ) Number of downloads: 14
Attached File  auctionweaver1.txt ( 103.83k ) Number of downloads: 10
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post 7 May, 2008 - 12:48 PM
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I can't seem to see an error message - just an .htm file.
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post 7 May, 2008 - 12:58 PM
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From the appearance of the two attached files, Perl is not installed (or not installed correctly) on those two servers. The one with the htm extension is probably a Windows server. It's hard to tell about the other.

The two servers are returning the Perl script itself instead of processing the script.
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post 7 May, 2008 - 01:18 PM
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Ooooh - so errorpage.htm is the actual output of your page.

Is it a windows server? Does it have Perl installed, and is the .cgi or .pl(whichever the script has) set up properly to run via the Perl compiler?

The second case is not having the proper handler within the Apache configuration(if it's an Apache system), which is why it's sending the script as plaintext. You need to add this line to .htaccess:
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AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
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post 7 May, 2008 - 01:45 PM
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Well do you know any free hosting that provides it already installed?
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post 7 May, 2008 - 04:45 PM
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I generally don't use free hosting, as I host all my projects myself.

You might want to try contacting the hosting company, and asking if Perl is installed or not - if it's not, try seeing if they'll install it for you - sometimes all you need to do is ask.
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post 7 May, 2008 - 08:20 PM
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Have you tried simply renaming your page to end with .pl or .cgi ? Almost all free hosts have perl installed, but it won't know to use perl for your page unless you use those extensions, or edit your .htaccess

The line girasquid wrote:
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AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

associates files ending with .cgi . If you want all your .htm files to be parsed as cgi (the most common way for perl to work) then it would be
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AddHandler cgi-script .htm

This is hardly ever done though since all htm files will need to be programs or they won't process correctly.

If you are on a linux host, those lines just go in your .htaccess file in your main directory
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