Mark Hensler — Thu, 02 Nov 2000 07:00:04 +0000

what is the error you get? (I'm assuming your getting a 500)

My 2 cents are betting on the path.
I may be wrong, but if it's on an NT box, don't you need to start with a drive letter? I do on my Win98...

Actually...

Ted Sindzinski — Wed, 01 Nov 2000 23:42:37 +0000

Since you mention perl.exe, I asusme you are on an NT server and therefore perl is NOT located in /usr/bin/perl or such.

The first and most important thing you you need to do is ask your host how perl is called. #!/perl/perl may work, but you may need to link to /perl/perl.exe or something totally different, depending on how iis is mapped.

You will also want to add a content header before you print anything. To do so, add the code print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

Enjoy and good luck!

voicebox — Wed, 01 Nov 2000 17:14:29 +0000

The path you have specified would not work, because perl is always stored on your ISP as either /usr/bin/perl or /usr/local/bin/perl. Try changing the line at the top of your script to one of these two.

Also, you need to write a Content-type: text/html header fr that script to work. Here is an amended version:

#!/usr/bin/perl (or #!/usr/local/bin/perl)
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "test";