CGI/Perl Help Please!

[rand115]

Hello, I'm working my way through perl by example 4th edition. I just reached a section in the book where CGI is being used with perl scripts. I can't seem to get the examples to work. Any advice?

[Your Mother]

Any advice?

Include the code sample as you've written it, what you expect to get, and what you actually get. :P

[Anonymous Monk]

I can't seem to get the examples to work. Any advice?

Sacrifice a goat beverage :/

Also, there are checklists for that , Basic debugging checklist , brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem, CGI Help Guide , Troubleshooting Perl CGI scripts

Yes, work through these checklists, when you find a problem on the list, use a solution from the list, when you find a problem not on the list (rare), post the error message and problem description here

brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem, CGI Help Guide , Troubleshooting Perl CGI scripts

So examine your server configuration and compare to https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/public_html.html#cgi / Apache Tutorial: Dynamic Content with CGI

learn about the internet,Web Programming: For Beginners, to get an overall picture of how the internet works, how tcp/ip, sockets, html, ajax, all fit together.

[soonix]

In case you are working on Windows, XAMPP contains examples. Only a few, but working examples.

Update: You did not specify wether you are fighting against syntax terror or wether you do not know how to run CGI programs. I presume the latter, so I second the advice from our anonymous confrere, especially the points at the end of that post.

[Anonymous Monk]

And if you're not interested in web programming, do skip that section. The web seems to be a magical black box to a lot of newbies, and the cause of a lot of headaches.

(And even if you are interested in web programming, CGI has become mostly outmoded and you might want to learn a modern framework instead. But those things' documentation expect you to already know the nuts and bolts of WWW...)