Hi,

I admit i'm a complete newbie in perl although i have been invloved in php : ) hope somebody can help me out with this

I want to run a simple perl scrip :

#!/usr/bin/perl
        
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

$request_method=$ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'};
print "request method:",$request_method,"<br>";
print "O.K.!";

but it shows this error msg:

"
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /Project_Demo/hello.cgi on this server.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache/1.3.29 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80

"

then i am wondering whether this is a script error or a server error

thanks in advance,
tris

What are the permissions settings of the file? You probably didn't set the file to be executable.

What are the permissions settings of the file? You probably didn't set the file to be executable.

hi,
thanks for your reply, but how do i check the permission setting of the file?

rgds,
tris

hi,
thanks for your reply, but how do i check the permission setting of the file?

rgds,
tris

Hi tris,

Use the following command to check if your hello.cgi is executable:

ls -l hello.cgi

Note the following position of the output:

-rw-rw-rwx 1 user group 564 Jan 29 00:02 hello.cgi

If there is no 'x' displayed in the above position, apply the following command:

chmod o+x hello.cgi

I think the situation is very much alike to that of your PHP scripts :)

Good luck,
Jim

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your reply. But i have fixed my problem, i think its because of the server setting. Anyway, i had changed the perl path in the scripts and now its working fine

rgds,
tris

solved!

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