Use Perl to create HTML for intranet

[akelabanda]

Hi

I am planning to have all pages dynamically generated
using Perl starting from "index.cgi".

I am aware that I should use CGI.pm for this purpose
and use start_html and end_html, header with print
statements to generate a html document (basics ).

But where should I be placing the scripts ? My webserver
is apache.

Typing

http://intranet/index.cgi

should display the
Home page I intend to put up.

And how can I use hyperlinks to run the CGI scripts ?
Most of the scripts that I found talk about form handling.

For example, I have a hyperlink "DOCS". When I click on
this, it should ideally run a script that takes a listing
of a directory, creates hyperlinks to all the files there.
So clicking them will open those files. This way I need
not update the page whenever there is a new file added
to the folder.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards
Raj

 

[danielemasson]

HI !!

If you are runing apache you should teka a look at the httpd.conf and find waht directory is allowed to run CGI scripts like .pl and .cgi, it should look like:

<Directory &quot;/var/

http://www/cgi-bin&quot;>

AllowOverride None
#this allows the directory to run CGI !
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

you should point your links like &quot;DOCS&quot; to a script placed in this directory !

=> Daniel.