i would guess the problems you are running into are related to .pl file
types not being associated with the perl executable. what distribution
of perl are you using? it's been a while... but the last time i
installed perl on windows, i used the active state dist
(http://www.activestate.com/) and i believe the installer set up the
association. generally, perl dist's on windows have at the very least a
script that will set up this association. i suppose you could also
create the association yourself, by right-clicking on a .pl file,
selecting "Open with...", then selecting the perl exe and checking the
"Always use this program to open these files" checkbox.
Amy Roh wrote:
>
> Was anyone able to run CGI perl scripts on Windows via Apache
> successfully? I couldn't get it to work even though I have perl
> interpreter installed on my windows machine. I can run perl scripts
> fine on command line but not through CGI using Apache. I couldn't find
> any docs on Apache limiting this restriction on Windows either.
>
> As I am concluding CGI feature addition to Tomcat 4, I'm having problem
> with running perl scripts via Runtime.exec() on Windows. It works fine
> on Unix, however, I can't seem to create process using the perl
> interpreter. I get IOException error=193 which means "not a valid Win32
> application." Perl interpreter is in my PATH, and works fine on command
> line. But why not using Runtime.exec()?
>
> What's the correct behavior for Apache? If Apache allows this
> limitation on Windows, then I guess it's okay to have the same
> limitation running CGI on tomcat as well. I'm thinking that not many
> people use CGI perl on Windows.
>
> Amy
