Re: Running Perl thru HTML

[FitTrend]

in reply to Running Perl thru HTML

Yes you can. What you can do on your webserver (I'm assuming apache) is to configure your directory with the ExecCGI directive in your httpd.conf file.

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.html.var

<Directory "DIR OF CHOICE">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
    AllowOverride none
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Then create an index.cgi file that performs to reference the variable $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'} variable within your script. Then utilize that value to perform your task. Lastly, redirect the user to that page. I personally use javascript (because sometimes I refresh multiple iframes or frames) for my redirects, like:

print qq { 
    <script language=javascript>
    window.open('/dir/$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}.html','','')
    </script>
};

Hope this helps