The Big Duh

chaoticset on 2001-10-10T06:02:09

I'm missing something important here, and it's probably fairly stupid.

I'm attempting to run an example CGI, and I'm not quite sure how to go about it. If I run the script in DOS, I get errors, but at least it's generating HTML. I set the file types to be associated with Perl, but it just opens a DOS window and runs it in that when I point the browser at the file.

The FAQs, as it always seems, are missing that one little vital question that will make this all fall into place for me.

That's okay; I can't expect to have the answers handed to me. If the answers were easy to get to, they wouldn't be worth going after.


How to run CGIs

koschei on 2001-10-10T06:10:35

You run it through a server rather than locally.

i.e. your url should http:// not file://

You may need to grab Apache or IIS.

Re:How to run CGIs

chaoticset on 2001-10-10T06:25:09

Will check it out - thank you. :)