CGI Script

[jain236]

Hi every body,

i am just new to the CGI scripting.
i am trying to run a basic CGI script . i am using APACHE as my web server .

i have placed my basic script inven.cgi in the web server and when i am trying to access my script with http://mydomain/inven.cgi
instead of getting the functionality of the script , i am seeing the whole script code on the web page.Do i need to do any setting to run the CGI script?

here is the code which i used

use CGI qw/:standard/;
  print header,
        start_html('A Simple Example'),
        h1('A Simple Example'),
        start_form,
        "What's your name? ",textfield('name'),p,
        "What's the combination?", p,
        checkbox_group(-name=>'words',
                       -values=>['eenie','meenie','minie','moe'],
                       -defaults=>['eenie','minie']), p,
        "What's your favorite color? ",
        popup_menu(-name=>'color',
                   -values=>['red','green','blue','chartreuse']),p,
        submit,
        end_form,
        hr;
 
   if (param()) {
       my $name      = param('name');
       my $keywords  = join ', ',param('words');
       my $color     = param('color');
       print "Your name is",em(escapeHTML($name)),p,
             "The keywords are: ",em(escapeHTML($keywords)),p,
             "Your favorite color is ",em(escapeHTML($color)),
             hr;
   }
 
   print end_html;
 

Thanking you in advance

[rajiv07]

Your script should be inside the cgi-bin directory which is a special directory to run the perl script.

Regards
Rajiv

[eWish]

Sounds like the server is not setup correctly. Check to make sure that you have enable it to run CGI scripts.

--Kevin

[jain236]

Sounds like the server is not setup correctly. Check to make sure that you have enable it to run CGI scripts.

--Kevin

Exactly..kevin. . i have made the changes.. thannx for you help