[Xitami] cant execute .pl files

Andrew Taylor xitami@lists.xitami.org
Mon, 10 Dec 2001 04:33:30 -0800


Thank you all for your help.  I tried each and every suggestion and none
worked. But then I went out for 30 minutes, my system experienced a power
failure and now it works.  Somehow it is fixed.
Thank you agian.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ewen McNeill" <ewen@imatix.com>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Xitami] cant execute .pl files


> In message <002201c17fd7$3558e900$65fea8c0@THUGSRUS>, "Andrew Taylor"
writes:
> >I know this has probally been addressed like 2 million times but..
> >When i try to execute .pl files from the browser it wants to download
> >them instead of executing them.
>
> Are your .pl files in the cgi-bin directory?  Do they have a #! line at
> the start that mentions "perl" in them?  Is perl on your PATH?
>
> Ewen
>
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