[Xitami] Problems enabling CGI

Ewen McNeill xitami@lists.xitami.org
Sat, 12 Jan 2002 01:13:05 +1300


In message <KGENLHHFNMHIJJDCIMGIOEFOCAAA.neilpaton@blueyonder.co.uk>, "Neil Paton" writes:
>I've installed Perl on my system, and I can successfully execute a perl
>program through dos, using the PERL file.pl command. So I know Perl works...
>Now when I access the perl file through my browser, which is
>http://127.0.0.1/scripts/index.pl, I simple get a file download box appear,
>which appears to show that CGI is not enabled. Can anyone help me?

Have you configured Xitami to think that "/scripts/" indicates your
cgi-bin directory?  If not, then it'll never try to run the program,
and just send it to the browser.

Ewen

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Ewen McNeill, Technical Consultant, iMatix Corporation  www.imatix.com