[thelist] perl and cgi-bin

[Bob Meetin]

I'm running into some problems with cgi-bin/perl a site after the 
hosting service had an outage.  This is not my cup of tea, so be nice. 

I have dadamail/mojomail running fine on a bunch of sites.  To install 
it you upload to cgi-bin and update some config files.  Sometimes you 
have to check/fix directory/file permissions - mostly 755 for 
directories and 644 for files, except mail.cgi which is executable.

On all the sites where it is working cgi-bin is under webroot - i.e. 
/home/myaccount/www/cgi-bin
Here it was sitting at /home/myaccount/cgi-bin.  This wasn't about to 
work, so I created it under www.

I set up everything mimicing a site where I'd recently installed 
dadamail 3.0 (latest) but accessing mail.cgi displays a blank page.  Not 
knowing too much about perl, I found a copy of hello world via google 
and placed it in the same folder, making it executable.  All it does is 
display the contents of the file:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<H1>Hello World</H1>\n";

On my site it prints Hello World.  So, I'm guessing that it's either a 
problem with perl or perhaps the path to perl.  Other question, other 
than the fact that cgi-bin typically resides under www, is there 
anything particular about it?

Over....

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