Re: setting up a localhost

[AcidHawk]

In the httpd.conf file there is this explination

# ServerName allows you to set a host name which is sent back to clien
+ts for
# your server if it's different than the one the program would get (i.
+e., use
# "www" instead of the host's real name).
#
# Note: You cannot just invent host names and hope they work. The name
+ you
# define here must be a valid DNS name for your host. If you don't und
+erstand
# this, ask your network administrator.
# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP addres
+s here.
# You will have to access it by its address (e.g., http://123.45.67.89
+/)
# anyway, and this will make redirections work in a sensible way.
#
# 127.0.0.1 is the TCP/IP local loop-back address, often named localho
+st. Your
# machine always knows itself by this address. If you use Apache stric
+tly for
# local testing and development, you may use 127.0.0.1 as the server n
+ame.
#
ServerName myservername

This will allow me to call http://localhost or http://myservername in the URL

In the same file you also need to make sure that your cgi-bin settings are correct..

    # ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scri
+pts.
    # ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
    # documents in the realname directory are treated as applications 
+and
    # run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent t
+o the client.
    # The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directive
+s as to
    # Alias.
    #
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My 
+Documents/myweb/cgi-bin/"

    #
    # "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/cgi-bin" should be changed
+ to whatever your ScriptAliased
    # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
    #
    <Directory "C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/m
+yweb/cgi-bin">
        AllowOverride None
        Options None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

Your cgi script shoud go in this dir. On the windows platform make sure you have the #!perl.exe line as the first line of your script, and that perl.exe is in your path.