Your Apache must be configured to support perl cgi scripts.
Is it?
What is in the Apache error log?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,gurus,
> I am a novice at MySQL. When I try to run a sample program in the book of
> "MySQL & mSQL" I get a error message from my apache server as follows,
> *********
> Internal Server Error
> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to
>complete your request.
>
> Please contact the server administrator, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and inform them of
>the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused
>the error.
>
> More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
> *********
>
> The sample program is
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use strict;
> use CGI qw(:standard);
> use CGI::Carp;
> use DBI;
> CGI::use_named_parameters(1);
>
> my ($db);
> my $output = new CGI;
>
> $db = param('test') or die("Could not find database!");
> my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$db:$server",root,passward );
>
> if (not $dbh) {
> print header, start_html('title'=>"Information on $host => $db",
> 'BGCOLOR'=>'white');
>
> print <<END_OF_HTML;
> <H1>$host</h1>
> <H2>$db</h2>
> For the following reasons the connection failed.<BR>
> $DBI::errstr
> </body></html>
> END_OF_HTML
> exit(0);
> }
>
> print header, start_html('title'=>"Information on $host => $db",
> 'BGCOLOR'=>'white');
> print <<END_OF_HTML;
> <H1>$host</h1>
> <H2>$db</h2>
> <p>
> Tables<br>
> <UL>
> END_OF_HTML
>
> my @tables = $dbh->func( '_ListTables' );
> foreach (@tables) {
> print "<LI>$_\n";
> }
> print <<END_OF_HTML;
> </ul>
> </body></html>
> END_OF_HTML
> exit(0);
> ********************
>
> Could someone tell me what is wrong? Thanks a lot.
>
> Regards,
>
> --Wen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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