[SLUG] Help needed with html form and perl script

2000-12-04 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi, One of our students submitted a 'Guestbook' perl script as part of her assessment. We were able to assess it for the things we needed, but it doesn't quite work (so no full marks of course!). I am going round in circles trying to see what I am doing wrong so am asking for help. When the

[SLUG] Help needed with html form and perl script

2000-12-04 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi, One of our students submitted a 'Guestbook' perl script as part of her assessment. We were able to assess it for the things we needed, but it doesn't quite work (so no full marks of course!). I am going round in circles trying to see what I am doing wrong so am asking for help. When the

Re: [SLUG] Help needed with html form and perl script

2000-12-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
Your web server doesnt know to interpret the script, generally youll want it to be in the cgi-bin, or allowed to run via ExecCGI or even mod_perl. Dean Simon Bryan wrote: Hi, One of our students submitted a 'Guestbook' perl script as part of her assessment. We were able to assess it for

Re: [SLUG] Help needed with html form and perl script

2000-12-04 Thread Nicholas Wilcox
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Simon Bryan wrote: When the submit buttonis pressed on the form the data is sent in the new URL but instead of the perl script running it loads into the browser window as text. It is called guestbook.plx (have tried cgi as an extension as well) and it has 755 as it's

Re: [SLUG] Help needed with html form and perl script

2000-12-04 Thread Arthur Barton
A quickie.. is it calling to perl in the correct place? was it done in perl 5(5.6), if you have perl 4? loading as plain text... hmm what is the output of the script supposed to be, output html [text] page? early morning ramblings. sorry (also apologies for possible HTML format and / or legal