New 2 Perl - Help

[Warvstar]

I need help, im new to all to all this .pl,.php,.cgi stuff

Here my Question:

When ever i try to run a perl script ".pl", i
end up at a download screen, like as if i were
downloading a file of the internet, but im not
im just trying to view the ".pl" page.


Please help, it sounds EZ
maybe my Computer just is to messed up

 

[tviman]

Give us a little info...

are you trying to run your script on your local machine or on a remote server? There's always a better way...

 

[melban]

Give it the right permissions. Probably not just read but give it read & execute

 

[Warvstar]

im on a win32 sytem and as far as i can tell only unix can be chmod, and yes it on a local machine

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

If the script is outside of the cgi-bin directory, then try executing it inside the cgi-bin just to see if problem is the server config.

Otherwise, could you post the script source here? It may be a problem with the actual script.

Hope this helps Wullie

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