Ken Elliott — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 01:25:31 +0000

all of the scripts run fine so long as they don't try to create a file. I guess it was a permissions thing, I got server support to give me write access to a folder. I remember from my readings a while back something about windows servers not having permissions. I know that I couldn't change them through an ftp client, that was enough proof for me.

So I guess there is no way to change permissions or give myself write access to a folder I create with an ftp client?

ken

Wil — Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:12:26 +0000

I *think* your IIS isn't properly configured to handle CGI.

Is Perl setup correctly on the server? There are a few example test scripts (like, hello world!) included with all Perl distributions in /examples. Try those out.

Is your path to Perl correct in the shebang line and has an env. variable been set in Windows to instruct IIS to open .pl or .cgi with Perl?

ROB — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:09:49 +0000

hmm, works for me on win2k pro from both the command line and through Apache. Maybe it's an IIS permissions issue ...

Ken Elliott — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:53:24 +0000

D:\inetpub\wwwroot\014143\sc3eb59g\cgi-bin\test.cgi' script produced no output

#!/usr/bin/perl

open (OUTFILE, '>./outfile.txt') or die("Error opening file: $!");
print OUTFILE 'testin';
close OUTFILE; 

print "Content-type:text/plain\n\n";
print "Created";

if I comment out the outfile, it works fine of course. I'm trying to track down the error log on this server, I hate windows servers :flame:

thanks
webG

ROB — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:52:06 +0000

open (OUTFILE, '>./outfile.txt') or die("Error opening file: $!");
print OUTFILE 'testin';
close OUTFILE;

works fine.

Mark Hensler — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:37:47 +0000

Do you get any errors?