[Xitami] Xitami, ActivePerl CGI Scripts Not Working

[Peter van der Goes]

Please tell me what 3D stuff you are referring to?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricko" <polson1@adelphia.net>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Xitami] Xitami, ActivePerl CGI Scripts Not Working


> what's with the 3D stuff never seen that before
> place your .pl files in the CGI-BIN directory
> after removing all the 3D stuff it worked like it should
>
> hummm
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter van der Goes" <pvdg@worldnet.att.net>
> To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 4:31 PM
> Subject: [Xitami] Xitami, ActivePerl CGI Scripts Not Working
>
>
> This is a follow-up to my previous post requesting help with the subject
> combination. In the first post, I listed the content of a simple web page
> passing a short string to a simple CGI script. I very probably should have
> stated this the first time around, but the page and script work fine if
the
> script is served from the web server provided by the author of the book
> where these beginner examples are published. So, I don't believe the
script
> itself is the problem.
> I have tried some suggestions offered by helpful people with the following
> results:
>
> "Put the complete URL of the Web Server being asked to serve the CGI in
the
> action line of the web page."
> Works correctly if I use the book author's URL, still fails when I try to
> use my local Xitami installation (get a blank page)
>
> "Active Perl only interprets .pl files, not .cgi."
> Changed the extension of animal.cgi to animal.pl. No difference noted.
Still
> get a blank page. If I change the extension on the simple, self-contained
> script that *will* run, it runs equally well with either .cgi or .pl as
the
> extension.
>
> "Study the Xitami ducumentation for settings that might accect your
> situation."
> I've looked at the documentation for both Xitami and ActivePerl, and
> (probably because I very inexperienced) don't see anything that looks like
a
> possible solution. ActivePerl *claims* to automatically configure Xitami
> during installation, but I suspect the configuration is not quite
complete.
>
> Other symptoms noted:
> Sometimes, after a failed attempt to call a CGI from a web page, the
Xitami
> icon in my system tray has changed from green to yellow. On other
occasions,
> the icon is still green after a failed attempt, but Xitami has "stopped
> responding".
> Other things tried:
> I have syntax checked the offending scripts in Perl and no errors are
> reported.
>
> I'm probably not describing all this very well, so if there is other
> specific information needed for further analysis, please tell me and I'll
> try to get it.
>
> Any suggestions much appreciated!
>
>
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