perl cgi with Apache HELP requested

[gshirey]

I am working on a Windows 2000 Box and have been trying to get a simple cgi script up and running. Simple enough right? No. Whenever I try to run a simple script, I get an Internal Server Error Page. Upon checking my logs I find the following error "[Thu Aug 16 16:17:35 2001] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (2)No such file or directory: couldn't spawn child process: e:/apache/cgi-bin/simple.cgi" I'm about positive I have all the configurations set properly within Apache, I think my problem must lie within the Windows command prompt and its permission. So a little investigation tells me that mod_perl should help me solve my problem (since this creates a compiler within apache and would thus leave any windows junk out of the picture.) Only it turns out that I can find no good documentation for installing mod_perl on a windows box. I have tried a couple of times, but can never seem to get the all important mod_perl.so file to be created.

Any help on either resolving my problem without mod_perl, or on installing mod_perl would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[goBoating]

mod_perl is certainly a valuable trick, but, if it fixes your problem it will have been an accident. I would suggest that you work on getting the simplest cgi stuff to work with plain vanilla apache before further complicating your configuration.

There are a few FAQs in the CGI forum that may be worth you time....
faq452-653
faq452-872

HTH


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