Script file gets downloaded??

[McCloud77]

I collected a lot of info about cgi and perl. At the end I could sew things together. I designed the form, in the Action keyword I put the name of the script file (.pl) that should run when the Submit button gets clicked. What happens is that the script file gets downloaded instead of being run. What is going on? Please help. My URL is

http://www.bau.edu.jo/~6icct/registration-form.htm

if someone would like to test what I have.

Thank you folks

McCloud

 

[Siberdude]

make sure in your script you have the line:

print "content-type: text/html\n\n";

close to the top. this tells the brpwser what kind of file to expect from the script, i'm assuming here your going to be printing out html to a web browser?

hope this helps
Sib
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[tsdragon]

It sounds like your server doesn't know it's supposed to execute the file instead of downloading it. Did you put the file in your cgi directory (usually cgi-cin or cgi-local)? In your action it should be "/cgi-bin/program.pl". Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.