On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Hill York Controls Dept. wrote: > I downloaded and installed the Apache All-in-one ver 1.3 > for windows binary with Apache, Perl and mod-Perl pre > configured and everything seems to be working. I created > the file "mod_perl_rules.pl" as described in the > documentation however when I click on it the perl screen > just flashes and nothing else happens. I am experiencing > the same thing with the perl script that should write to a > database.txt file when a form is submitted.
First off, unless you have a really good reason not to, I'd suggest using the Apache/Perl binary for Apache-2 and perl-5.8 (Perl-5.8-win32-bin.exe) - there are some very significant performance enhancements for Win32 that this has over the one based on Apache-1.3/perl-5.6. I'll be making up a new version of the Apache-2/perl-5.8 binary shortly, based on perl-5.8.4, as soon as Apache/2.0.50 is released. > It may be due to write permissions but having absolutely > no experience I simply can not figure it out (even with > the really good 543 page instruction manual I downloaded > in PDF format). I tried the % mkdir /home/user/modperl > command in both dos and in the ppm but get errors in both > places. Security is not an issue nor is anything else. The > only thing I need is to get the script to write to a file. > I have this server on a local computer strictly for form > development and testing. Since I am the only one on the > system there is no reason for protection at all... it's > not public.. It's hard to tell what's wrong without seeing some of your code. Can you provide a sample script, minimized to illustrate the problem, along with a copy of the relevant Apache configuration section in httpd.conf and what appears in Apache's error log, if anything, when you run it? Before doing that, though, if this is a script that's being run under Apache::Registry for mod_perl-1/Apache-1.3, or under ModPerl::Registry for mod_perl-2/Apache-2, you may want to - make sure that the supplied example registry script in the binary distribution that just prints out the environment variables works - this will test your installation and configuration, - try your script as an ordinary cgi script under the cgi-bin directory (if there's no mod_perl-specific code in it) - this will test that the script itself contains no obvious Perl-related errors. You might also want to consult the documentation at http://perl.apache.org/, including the Win32-specific sections if you think this is a Win32 problem, to see if anything there gives a hint at resolving this. -- best regards, randy kobes -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
