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cgi and ascii

Anonymous Coward

Subject: cgi and ascii · Posted: 2005-05-31, 12:17pm

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Hi i am trying to run cgi script on my local machine but getting this error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

if i use the perl test.cgi command i get the script but if i type test.cgi i get
Bad command or file nam

message, code i have used is following

Code:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use CGI;
$query = new CGI;
print $query->header;
print "<html><head><title>A test</title></head>\n";
print "<body>The test was successful.</body></html>";

path to my cgi-bin is C:\apache\cgi-bin and perl is insltalled on C:\perl
I have installed ws-ftp95 to upload the script in ascii mode but i dont know how to connect with local host i tried to use the tutorial at http://www.atlas.spaceports.com/~wysardry/ftp/wsftp03a.htm but could not get anywhere can someone help me pls. I have just started cgi and this code i took from the book
thank you

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Mickey

Subject: Re: cgi and ascii · Posted: 2005-07-11, 03:38pm

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Member #: 16569

You have your perl path wrong in the first line.

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