just another CGI newbie

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm learning to use CGI.pm and it seems to work nicely. However, when using a stylesheet the output appears as if the stylesheet did not exist. The output source looked fine to me, so I copied it and tried accessing the "new" page: it now appears properly.

Since the stylesheet was in the same directory as the page calling the cgi script (so -style=>{'src'=>'style.css'}), I also copied it into cgi-bin but this didn't make any difference.

Does anyone know why two identical pages -- one saved as an actual .html file and one output from a perl script -- would end up appearing differently?

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Re: just another CGI newbie by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 19, 2008 at 22:57 UTC
Since the stylesheet was in the same directory as the page calling the cgi script Irrelevant. (I was going to ask "Is the style sheet in the same directory as the cgi script?", but that's irrelevant too.) If the HTML returned by the script at `http://www.example.com/app/script.cgi` refers to the style sheet at `style.css` then the browser will attempt to locate the style sheet at `http://www.example.com/app/style.css` Is that where the style sheet is located?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: just another CGI newbie by CountZero (Bishop) on Sep 20, 2008 at 07:11 UTC
Well, I beg to differ ... It all depends how the webserver is configured. You can easily have all your "cgi" scripts be served out of a "cgi-bin" directory and all your "css" files out of a totally different directory without the URL showing any different path. CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James	[reply]
Re^3: just another CGI newbie by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 20, 2008 at 07:39 UTC
How is that differing? That's exactly what I said. It all depends how the webserver is configured to handle individual urls, so it's irrelevant in which directory the files are located.	[reply]
Re^2: just another CGI newbie by Anonymous Monk on Sep 19, 2008 at 23:55 UTC
"Is that where the style sheet is located?" yep. I actually have three copies of it on the server now (one in cgi-bin, one in "html", and one in their common parent)	[reply]
Re^3: just another CGI newbie by Anonymous Monk on Sep 20, 2008 at 00:04 UTC
sorry all, it's because the server won't process it in cgi-bin, ie. "../style.css" and "../html/style.css" are okay where "style.css" is not...	[reply]
Re: just another CGI newbie by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Sep 20, 2008 at 10:51 UTC
Does anyone know why two identical pages -- one saved as an actual .html file and one output from a perl script -- would end up appearing differently? Served from the same location at the same time? They can't. Not if they're truly identical. You can't send us links to these two identical pages? It would probably be a lot easier. Nobody says perl looks like line-noise any more kids today don't know what line-noise IS ...	[reply]
Re: just another CGI newbie by porta (Sexton) on Sep 20, 2008 at 12:47 UTC
... Or paste here the header section of the html to get an idea of what's really happening (to see if the problem is on the html or the server).	[reply]

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