Need help on Running a CGI program

[kriz4321]

I just started to learn CGI as I have some Basic knowledge in perl.
Iam Just trying to run a simple Hello world program and i face some problems
let me know ifthe procedure I followed is correct.

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello, world!\n
 

I logged into my unix server and created a folder called public_html and created
a file called first.html and placed the above source code in it.

I opened my Internet explorer and then typed "http://servername/~unixid/ and I was able see a file called first.html and when I clicked it I can see the entire code and not only "Hello world".

I created another file called first.cgi and placed the above source code and tried to open it still I cont see hello world printed on my screen.

It will be helpful for me to learn further If I konow how to run a CGI script.

Kindly help me.

[numberwhun]

You are going to have to make sure that you apache server(if that is what you are using for a web server) is setup to execute CGI scripts. Here is some documentation from the apache site to help you with that configuration.

If Apache isn't setup to "run" the cgi script, then it will just simply display it as text, as you have seen.

Regards,

Jeff

[miller]

Also, as the above documentation will tell you. You have to make sure that the cgi script is executable by the user running the web server.

chmod a+x yourscript.cgi

- Miller

[kriz4321]

Hi numberwhun and Miller

Thanks for the comments given.
I opened http://servername/~unixid Iam able to see all the .html files which are kept in public_html folder in my unix server.
I can also see the below line at the bottom of the page.
Apache/2.0.16 Server at <servernmae>Port 80.so Apache is Installed in my server.

Now my question is where will be the CGIbin directory present so that I can place my .cgi files there.

[numberwhun]

You need to really read the link that I gave you in my last reasponse as t is question is answered in there.

If you locate your httpd.conf, you will want to locate the ScriptAlias directive. This is where apache is told to execute cgi scripts from.

I know that I am running Fedora Core 7 and on there Apache2 already had it pre-defined as /var/www/cgi-bin, while my localhost root directory for all my html code is /var/www/html (ie: my DocumentRoot).
I put my.cgi scripts in /var/www/cgi-bin and reference them in my browser as http://localhost/cgi-bin/script.cgi and they run just fine.

Regards,

Jeff