cgi-bin help

solarwind

Lets say I have a file "hello.cgi" that just uses perl. It just prints hello world when executed.

Here are my questions:

1) What is the perl executable? Example, is it: /usr/bin/perl? or /usr/local/bin/perl?
2) What should my .cgi file be chmoded to?
3) How should I link to the "hello.cgi" file from my homepage "http://www.solarwind.frih.net/index.html"? like would it be "http://www.solarwind.frih.net/cgi-bin/hello.cgi"? or where would it be located as a url?
4) Also, it does go in public_html/cgi-bin/ right?

All help is much appreciated

Thankyou

thnn

Perl directory is #!/usr/bin/perl

Chmod to 755.

And yes you would use the link http://www.solarwind.frih.net/cgi-bin/hello.cgi

Make sure of course that the hello.cgi program is in the cgi-bin. However it is possible to set the mail directory to run CGI programs, at http://www.solarwind.frih.net/hello.cgi, for example if you put this in the .htaccess file.

solarwind

Wow! Thanks, that worked, you saved me time!

Thankyou!!!

Tumbleweed

What scripts are allready (if any) are on my frih space ?
I am trying to make a comments form and the tutorial I am following asks for the location of the pearl script for handling mail through cgi
(there example is fmail.pl)....Is there allready some scripts in my frih space or do I have to add my own ?

johanfh

You can look wich perl-modules are installed in DirectAdmin (look in Your Account - Installed Perl Modules), but I don't think the script you need is installed. Note: a script is not the same as a module. The difference isn't important for now, but modules end in .pm and scripts end most of the time in .pl
So I guess you need to upload fmail.pl yourself
Wink

Good luck!
JohanFH

Tumbleweed

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