[Xitami] A newbie question....

[Francis Turner]

OK you have a problem with perl being called by Xitami. Perl should
not be opening a comand prompt window. I've never seen this behaviour
so I'm not completely clear why it is doing so but I repeat my
suggestion to try and run some perl simpler CGI scripts and see if
they do the same thing.

E.g. create a file called example.cgi in your cgi/bin directory with
the following contents and see if http://localhost/cgi-bin/example.cgi
produces displayable HTML or a blank screen
------- start of example.cgi ---
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use CGI qw(:standard);

print header;
print start_html('A Simple Example'),
    h1('A Simple Example'),end_html;
------- end of example.cgi ---

(note this file works on my Xitami/Windows/Perl setup just fine).

If it does the same thing (window/blank html) then we probably need a
dump of your environment to figure out what is going wrong ...

On 4/4/06, Richard.Copits at bwc.state.oh.us
<Richard.Copits at bwc.state.oh.us> wrote:
>
> It's a Perl script that creates several directories and also produces
> output which I want to show up in a browser. When I run it under DOS,
> the directories get created and it runs and displays the HTML code in
> the DOS window. When I try to run it in the browser window by using
> "http://localhost/xitami/cgi-bin/auction.pl" it pops up a dos window,
> the code sort of flashes by and the dos window closes. It's as though
> the HTML code somehow never "calls" or gets "piped into" the browser so
> that it runs in the browser. When I run the code on a Unix/Apache system
> on my ISP it works fine. I just can't seem to get the output of the PERL
> program (the HTML code..) to show up in the browser. I'm new at this and
> I think I'm missing a step somewhere with getting it to run on a W2k
> system...  I've read as much as I can find on this problem but nothing
> seems to address what I need to do. Perl works, the admin console says
> Xitami is working, but I cant' get the output to show up in my
> browser....
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xitami-bounces at lists.xitami.org
> [mailto:xitami-bounces at lists.xitami.org] On Behalf Of Francis Turner
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 4:04 PM
> To: Xitami Users General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Xitami] A newbie question....
>
> Without a touch more information - e.g.the perl script or critical
> portions of it - its going to be hard to answer your question.
>
> My on;y other suggestion would be to try running one the the CGI.pm
> example scripts -
> http://search.cpan.org/src/LDS/CGI.pm-3.17/examples/index.html - and
> see if it works as it should.
>
> Francis
>
> On 4/4/06, Richard.Copits at bwc.state.oh.us
> <Richard.Copits at bwc.state.oh.us> wrote:
> >
> > I have just downloaded xitami and gotten it configured - I hope
> correctly -
> > on my W2K professional system. I've installed PERL as well. I put a
> PERL
> > .PL in c:\xitami\cgi-bin and tried running it by using my IE browser
> to run
> > it.
> >
> > I'm sure the program runs as it creates three directories like it's
> supposed
> > to, but I can't get the HTML to display the web page that it produces.
> Am I
> > doing something wrong or ???
> >
> > Thank you for any suggestions on what I should be looking for/at.
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