fairhousing — Tue, 15 Feb 2000 03:54:00 +0000

thx folks ;0

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Maverick — Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:53:00 +0000

Editing and testing your Perl programs locally is a lot easier than uploading to the server to test. You should definitely install the necessary software to your computer. I'd recommend going with Apache web server and ActivePerl. Both are open-source, free and available for Windows PCs. There are lot of different freeware personal web servers out there, but Apache rules the market and is therefore the best documented. If you go with Xitami or Omnicron or the others it might be hard to get help if you hit a snag, but getting help for the Apache/ActivePerl combo is really easy. Also, Apache is readily and easily compatible with PHP, MySQL and almost anything else you might want to add along the way. Check out http://www.visca.com/clueless/perl_apache_win9x.html

That's a pretty good tutorial for installing and using a local Perl/Apache set-up.

roBofh — Mon, 14 Feb 2000 03:21:00 +0000

Personally, I feel it's best to test cgi scripts on whatever system you're going to end up using. One very nice benefit of running linux, but that's a side note. you should find out what kind of web server you're hosted on, and try to use either that or an evaluation copy of it so that you can make sure there aren't any obscure problems with it. Perl for windows is great, but nothing beats Perl for whatever system environment you're eventually going to use the script on.

Rob Pengelly — Mon, 14 Feb 2000 01:59:00 +0000

Perl for Windows can be found at http://www.activestate.com/activeperl

It comes with a debugger so you can debug your scripts before putting them on your website. It also comes with tons of documentation.

You may want to set-up a local webserver (I recommend/use Omnicron httpd, found at [url=http://www.omnicron.ab.ca)]http://www.omnicron.ab.ca)[/url] so that you can test the scripts locally.

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[This message has been edited by robp (edited 13 February 2000).]

Orpheus — Mon, 14 Feb 2000 01:14:00 +0000