Apache Error ! Path or What?

[felonius]

I have just installed Apache on my win98 and trying to use it to test cgi scripts but it returns errors on all the scripts i have.

i dont know if it is the document root line in the script which reads like.

#!/usr/bin/perl

should this line be something else?

Please help

 

[danielhozac]

That should be the path to Perl on your system.

//Daniel

 

[Haunter]

#There are two approches to setting up a webserver with #apapche on a win32 machine.

#1st: Rarely used I might add

#Set you shebang line to location of perl on win32
#!c:/perl/perl
#Comment this line in the http.conf file
#ScriptInterpreterSource registry

#2nd More commonly used

#Goto the http.conf file

#Uncomment this or if it does not exist add it.
ScriptInterpreterSource registry

#Now associate all .pl and .cgi file endings with the perl #interpreter let me know if you dont know how to do that.

#next again in the http.conf file
#put this directive
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi



haunter@battlestrata.com

 

[Newposter]

felonius, what you have is the unix syntax for the shebang in your PERL scripts. These scripts must have been written for a unix server. You have to comment this out or rewrite it to your actual path in Windows 98 for perl.exe, as Haunter has described.

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