To Run perl through CGI

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

Hi I am Very New to Perl. Learning perl online from last 2 to 3 days.

My question is:

How to run perl script as CGI in Ubunut machines I have tried it but didn't got succeed . Please help me.

I have googled it but didn't find many supporting tutorials for it.
Gone through one of the tutorial i have done exactly the same, But didn't worked.

Thank you all for your reponsese.
Here I am going to update my question.

I have kept my file at /var/www/cgi-bin/ and i have made following changes in /etc/apache2/apche2.conf


Alias /cgi-bin /var/www/cgi-bin/
<Directory /var/www/cgi-bin>
AllowOverride None
AddHandler cgi-script pl cgi
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
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I have restarted Apache. found following error on apache error logs

attempt to invoke directory as script: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ . When I have accessed through Url. And found following error on page
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this server.
Though I have given the 0777 permission for directory "cgi-bin".

http://localhost/cgi-bin

I have kept my file "test.pl" under "cgi-bin" and when I am accessing it through URL. its giving 404 error.

code of test.pl


###Start###
#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Hello world";

###End###
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please help.
Thanks in Advance..!!!

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Re: To Run perl through CGI by kcott (Archbishop) on Oct 29, 2015 at 06:50 UTC
G'day sidvanga, Welcome to the Monastery. Here's the documentation for CGI. As Anonymous Monk indicates, telling us that something "didn't work" (without any supporting information) does not help us to help you. Please see "How do I post a question effectively?" for more details. — Ken	[reply]
Re: To Run perl through CGI by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Oct 29, 2015 at 10:32 UTC
Further to kcott's post: Please see "How do I post a question effectively?" ... sidvanga: Please also consider I know what I mean. Why don't you?. Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: To Run perl through CGI by Anonymous Monk on Oct 29, 2015 at 06:13 UTC
How to run perl script as CGI in Ubunut machines I have tried it but didn't got succeed Gone through one of the tutorial i have done exactly the same, But didn't worked. Which one? what did you do and what happened?	[reply]
Re: To Run perl through CGI by tonto (Friar) on Oct 29, 2015 at 19:34 UTC
Did you configure Apache to run perl scripts from the directory where you have your perl script? Did you restart Apache as root after you finished the configuration? Did you make your perl script executable? What error message do you find in the Apache error log? Also, please post the test script that you're trying to run. There are many, many possible reasons why it doesn't work; that's why more details are required, as mentioned in previous replies.	[reply]
Re^2: To Run perl through CGI by sidvanga (Initiate) on Nov 06, 2015 at 06:09 UTC
I have updated my question can you please help me out.	[reply]
Re^3: To Run perl through CGI by davebaker (Pilgrim) on Nov 06, 2015 at 18:01 UTC
Change `Alias /cgi-bin /var/www/cgi-bin/` [download] to be `ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/` [download] (note use of ScriptAlias rather than Alias and the new trailing slash in the first string after ScriptAlias)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: To Run perl through CGI by tonto (Friar) on Nov 06, 2015 at 23:02 UTC
Your test script cannot run because it is not a cgi script, so Apache cannot run it. Try this instead: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "<html>"; print "<header><title>Hello</title></header>"; print "<body>"; print "<p>Hello World!</p>\n"; print "</body>"; print "</html>"; 1;` [download] The next problem is your Apache configuration. What version is Apache? You can find that by typing this into a terminal: `apachectl -V` [download] If your Apache is 2.4, you need to add this line to the configuration: `Require all granted` [download] That goes at the bottom of your directory configuration. Also make the changes that davebaker and AnonymousMonk have mentioned.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: To Run perl through CGI by Anonymous Monk on Nov 06, 2015 at 07:12 UTC
See https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/cgi.html and do what it says exactly , alias should be scriptalias, AddHandler should use .pl and .cgi	[reply]


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