First you have to tell us what operating sys. you want to use for this. Then we can
help you install a webserver. (apache or IIS). Then you have to install Perl for the
Op. sys. (*nix or win32) Then we'll have to get you setup with a type of Mailer that
will let you send things to Groupwise. It's not really that hard to do if you have all
of the pieces of the puzzle.
Mark Bergeron
-----Original Message-----
From: "Kris Cook"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Adam Carson'"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue Jun 19 07:38:14 PDT 2001
Subject: Re: Running CGI's locally
>I stumbled through this myself, so here are the things I stubbed MY toes on:
>
>First, if you're running on a desktop OS (NT Workstation), you'll need
>Personal Web Server or IIS loaded, or Apache if you prefer. My PWS said it
>was loaded, but my Perl scripts would not generate CGI (they opened a DOS
>window and sent their output there) until I removed PWS, rebooted, and
>re-installed it.
>
>Second, you'll also need to place your Perl scripts in the script directory
>of Inetpub (IIS/PWS), or wherever Apache's cgi-bin directory is pointed.
>
>Until I figured out my PWS problem, I was having to run Perl from the
>command line, redirect the output, and then run the generated HTML in order
>to test my output. It works, but ugly does not BEGIN {} to describe it.
>
>Hope that helps. Perl is awesome, but sometimes getting it to do what you
>expect in MS-land is, um, (interesting?).
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Adam Carson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:24 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Running CGI's locally
>>
>>
>> I am trying to create a simple form in HTML for tech support
>> requests for the county I work for. I just started even
>> looking at Perl a few days ago, so a lot of this is
>> confusing. In HTML, I have problems sending forms because my
>> office uses Groupwise, which is not receiving data from the
>> mailto action. I thought CGI's would be more efficient and
>> more versatile, so I started reading up on them. I found
>> some public domain Perl files to try, but whenever I try to
>> load them in my browsers (IE5.5 and Netscape4.7) the browser
>> will not execute the script, and instead tries to download it
>> as file or display the script as plain text. I am running NT4.0.
>>
/~_. _ | _ _ _ _
\_/|(_||| | |(_)| |
_|
___________________________________________________
GO.com Mail
Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com
