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how to run perl -cgi scripts

Oct 24th, 2008

i have got xampp1.6.8

when i run this program in localhost

#!"C:\xampp\perl\bin\perl.exe"
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print '<html>';
print '<head>';
print '<meta name="author" content="Kay Vogelgesang">';
print '<link href="/xampp/xampp.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">';
print '</head>';
print "<body> <p><h1>Sairam with MiniPerl</h1>";
print "CGI with MiniPerl is ready ...</body></html>";

it runs

but when it contains perl scripts it does not run as given below

#!"c:\xampp\perl\bin\perl.exe"
print "Content-type: text/plain","\n\n";
print "Welcome to Shishir's WWW Server!", "\n";
$remote_host = $ENV{'REMOTE_HOST'};
print "You are visiting from ", $remote_host, ". ";
$uptime = `/usr/ucb/uptime` ;
($load_average) = ($uptime =~ /average: ([^,]*)/);
print "The load average on this machine is: ", $load_average, ".", "\n";
print "Happy navigating!", "\n";
exit (0);

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Re: how to run perl -cgi scripts

Oct 24th, 2008

as far as I know there should be no quotes on the shebang line:

#!c:\xampp\perl\bin\perl.exe

but you're better off using forward slashes, which Windows fully supports:

#!c:/xampp/perl/bin/perl.exe

backslashes in perl code create escape sequences, not on the shebang line which is a special line in a perl program, but its a good habit to use forward slashes in file/directory paths whenever possible to avoid the problem intirely. Note that DOS does not support forward slashes so if you ever do something in DOS you will have to use backslahes in directory paths.