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 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 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 permissions. What else do I have to do? Or how do I test the
> perl script without the html page?
>
> Any help appreciated as we would like to incorporate this into our website as
> having being written by a student.
>
> Cheers,
>
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