Re: How to configure Apache for running perl scripts.

[dsb]

in reply to How to configure Apache for running perl scripts.

You have to configure Apache to handle Perl scripts. This might be a good place to start before you go showing off your source code :).

You also need to print out valid HTTP headers before you can print any web content. Something your tiny script does not do.

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

or even better:

use strict;

use CGI;
my $q = CGI->new();
print $q->header("text/html");

[munu]

Now I have added the lines you have specified..
But now it is telling that "you do not have permission to access a.pl on this server".
BUT I DID "chmod 777 a.pl".
In /httpd/logs/errlog file it is mentioned that "optionsExecCGI is off in this directory /var/www/html1/a.pl"
suEXEC mechanism is enabled

[gellyfish]

It is probably the permissions on the directory. You do not want the program to be rwx by the world, 755 should be sufficient - also with suExec it will protest at running things that appear to be owned by someone other than the user the script will be run at.

/J\