[thelist] PERL? - was [F2S Announcement]

Thu Dec 6 13:18:40 CST 2001

Daniel J. Cody writes:

> > I'd really like to play with Perl too ... 
> > 
> > Is there a short article or note or test file somewhere with a
> > step-by-step, ["make the shebang line look like this", "then store the
> > file in a directory called that"], that could get me going in Perl?
> 
> hrmm. i'm not the biggest perl guy, but maybe garrett c, anthony,
> dean, or any of the other perl gurus can point some out :)

- For the shebang line, it's the typical #!/usr/bin/perl -w

- Depending on how Dan configures your access, put .cgi on the end of
  your file, make sure that it is world executable, and you should be
  good.  If Dan restricts you to running CGI out of a certain
  directory, he'll have to let you know.  (Oh, everything needs to be
  in the public_html directory but that should be obvious.)

For a test file:

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$| = 1;

use strict;

print <<END;
Content-type: text/html

<html>
<head><title>Hello World</title></head>

<body>

<h1>Hello World</h1>

</body>
</html>
END

exit(0);
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Save it as helloworld.cgi in your public_html directory, chmod o+rw,
and then access it at:

   http://members.evolt.org/user/helloworld.cgi

Hope that helps,
Dean