How to run .pl files in a browser? PERL

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I've tried to rename the perl file from .pl to HTML and this did not work. Currently I run my .pl files from the command prompt, how do I run them from a browser.

Please see the follow PERL code I'm trying to run in a browser:

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 #!/usr/bin/perl
 
%pages = (

    "fred" => "http://www.cgi101.com/~fred",

    "Wilma" => "http://www.cgi101.com/~wilma",

);
 
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

print <<EndHdr;
 
<html><head><title>URL List</title></head>

<body bgcolour="#ffffff">
 
<p>

<h2>URL List</h2>

<ul>

EndHdr
 
foreach $key (keys %pages) {

    print "<li><a href=\"$pages{$key}\">$key</a>\n";

}
 
print <<EndFooter;

</ul>

<p>

</body>

</html>

EndFooter

Sep 6 '07 #1

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KevinADC

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You need to install and setup an http server on your local PC to run CGI scripts. apache is free and pretty easy to get setup. Ask in the apache forum how to go about doing it.

Browsers run HTML code, know what to do with javascript and CSS, but perl is just text to a browser. Could you imagine if browsers could run perl scripts that easily? Everyones computers would be hacked by the end of the day.

Sep 6 '07 #2

patelxxx

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Kevin,

I have setup Apache and is running, however when I run the code as a HTML file it gives me the following results, whereas I'm expecting the result to be same as the command prompt when I run it (perl variablehash.pl).

RESULTS in .html:

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#!/usr/bin/perl
 
%pages = (

    "fred" => "http://www.cgi101.com/~fred",

    "Wilma" => "http://www.cgi101.com/~wilma",

);
 
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
 
print <<EndHdr;
 
<html><head><title>URL List</title></head>

<body bgcolour="#ffffff">
 
<p>

<h2>URL List</h2>

<ul>

EndHdr
 
foreach $key (keys %pages) {

    print "$key\n";

}
 
print <<EndFooter;

</ul>

<p>

</body>

</html>

EndFooter

Sep 7 '07 #3

KevinADC

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Expert 2GB

You're confused. You don't embed perl in html. That is not the way to run perl base dCGI scripts. You write perl programs and, name them with .pl or .cgi extensions ( for now anyway), put them in the cgi-bin, and run them form there. So set up the cgi-bin to run executables and start putting your cgi scripts in the cgi-bin.

Sep 7 '07 #4

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