I was trying to find a log file to look at. I guess half the problem is I am using a hosting service, and it is on a Microsoft IIS server (Windows NT-based I think, but definitely not UNIX). I will have to ask the hosting admin where I might find a log file...
Here is the part of the perl script that I start printing things to the browser (see previous message for the html.pm script that contains the HTML_header and HTML_ender subroutines): my $header = 'Successful update'; my $msg = "<h2>Your preferences have been updated successfully...</h2><hr><br><br><br>"; # Finally, put up a HTML document announcing that the update was successful. &HTML_header($header); print "<body>\n"; print "<center>\n"; print "$msg\n"; print "<p>Return to the <a href=\"amtest.pl?uname=$uname\" onMouseover=\"window.status='Back to account management'; return true\" onMouseout=\"window.status=''; return true\">Account Management</a> page</p>\n"; print "</center>\n"; &HTML_ender; Note that I have also tried using print qq| ... | code as well. I am now getting a CGI error message along the lines of Cannot find a string terminator '"' in ... line ... (the line above starting with print "<p>... ". I can't find a problem with that line??? Thanks for your help so far guys! I am losing a bit of sleep on this one :( Regards, Mike. -----Original Message----- From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 06 August, 2003 2:30 AM To: Jon Hogue Cc: Mike Harrison; 'Andrew Brosnan'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Perl line breaks For troubleshooting a script you can take a look in the server's log file and you will find there any error. Teddy, Teddy's Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Hogue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Octavian Rasnita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Mike Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Andrew Brosnan'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:19 PM Subject: Re: Perl line breaks > >...and you don't need to print the HTML header in the BEGIN {} block. >You can just print it at the top of the perl program or in the middle of the >program but before anything else is printed. if something is dieing in a module you are loading, you will never know about it because it will never get to the Content-Type and therefore never send anything good to your browser. if you use a BEGIN block, you might catch things that happen in modules you load. i wouldn't recommend doing that for your normal script, but it is a useful troubleshooting tool.
