CGI Book Advice sought ...

2004-09-15 Thread hcohen2
Recently I jumped in to the list and gave a correct answer, but unfortunately not really appropriate answer to the question asked. I took the 'Beginners' adjective for this list too seriously. Hence, to keep myself out of trouble, I think it is time to get another book on CGI for perl to

Re: CGI Book Advice sought ...

2004-09-15 Thread hcohen2
Chris Devers wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, hcohen2 wrote: [...] CGI Programming 101: Programming Perl for the WWW and is a 2004 publication. The first 6 chapters are on line, so I can get some idea of the book's value by going through those chapters. ...and the URL for that is... ? Here

Re: DirectoryIndex

2004-09-12 Thread hcohen2
Octavian Rasnita wrote: Hello all, I have named index.html a file that in fact is a perl cgi program and I have put it in the directory /cgi-bin/ It works fine if I access it using an URL like: http://localhost/cgi-bin/index.html The problem is that I want to access that program using:

Re: The connection was refused when attempting to connect 127.0.0.1.

2004-08-15 Thread hcohen2
Chris Devers wrote: You're saying that Apache is responding to requests, but you want it to respond to your CGI script. You need to configure it to do this, and you need to give it a URL that correctly translates into the location of a file that Apache knows to serve as a CGI script. I have

Re: The connection was refused when attempting to connect 127.0.0.1.

2004-08-15 Thread hcohen2
Chris Devers wrote: You say this is a custom installed Apache? Does that imply that you didn't have a copy of Apache available from Mandrake? I'd be very surprised if any version of Linux distributed today didn't come with it, so why not use that one? I'm not a Mandrake user (or a Red Hat

Re: The connection was refused when attempting to connect 127.0.0.1.

2004-08-15 Thread hcohen2
Owen wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:18:32 -0400 hcohen2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -rw-r--r--1 root root 172 Aug 10 19:29 /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/cgihello.pl Well you have to make it execitable (as su) chmod 755 /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/cgihello.pl This is a bad sign

Re: Here is the URL for Beginning Perl

2004-08-14 Thread hcohen2
I am sorry if this appears too often, but I have not seen several messages that I sent to the list distributed or appearing on the maillist archive. Moreover, I am getting a lot of failed mailings. At first these seemed to be bogus, since I did get replies. However, my last message despite

The connection was refused when attempting to connect 127.0.0.1.

2004-08-14 Thread hcohen2
This is the exact message when I try using the defaulted server address. Any ideas why. Proved the server is running and listening when contacted via the Linux command prompt. See earlier emails under RE: Here is the URL for Beginning Perl Trying this: http://127.0.0.1:8080/ I came into a

Getting local apache server to connect and to execute perl script ...

2004-08-13 Thread hcohen2
Accept my apologies if it is understood that this question is out-of-scope for this maillist. My explanation is that I just joined. I am having problems with an example from the on-line book Beginning Perl in Chapter 12 the text begins by saying the simple default installation of apache will

Is merak.montrose.net/challenge ... real?

2004-08-13 Thread hcohen2
I am highly suspicious of unexpected emails preporting to be spam filters - my membership on the beginners perl-cgi maillist was already confirmed. Their site raised my suspicions further do they have anything to do with this mail list? Are the users of this mail list just being duped into