Installing Perl/CGI on Microsoft Windows
My Configurations
My system is configured as follows:
Web root = c:/www Apache version = 2.2.6 Apache installation directory = c:/Apache2.2/
Download ActivePerl
Download windows MSI version from http://www.activestate.com/store/activeperl/downloadInstall ActivePerl
Double click on the downloaded file to install it. By default it installs at c:/Perl.Test Installation
To test whether the installation was successfull, we need to create and run a hello world file.Save the file as c:/www/hello.pl!c/Perl/bin/perl
print "Hello, World...\n";
Start > Run > cmd > Ok type perl hello.pl
If you see Hello, World..., Perl installed correctly, otherwise reinstall ActiveState Perl.
Activate CGI
Open httpd.conf changeOptions Indexes FollowSymLinksto
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGIExecCGI tells Apache to execute CGI. Next, change
#AddHandler cgi-script .cgito
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .plNow .cgi and .pl files could be executed as CGI.
Test CGI
!/Perl/bin/perl
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n"; print "hello world";
Save it as c:/Apache2.2/cgi-bin/hello.cgi. View http://localhost/cgi-bin/hello.cgi in your browser. If you see hello world, CGI is working correctly.
Running CGI from another address
Very often you would not want to run CGI from an Apache directory. To change the cgi-bin, create the folder
c:/www/cgi-bin/Then edit your httpd.conf file. The ScriptAlias line should look as follows:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ C:/www/cgi-bin/and change
<Directory "C:/Apache2.2/cgi-bin">to
<Directory "C:/www/cgi-bin">
Errors
Perl errors are logged in the Apache error log. To view it, go to Start > Apache HTTP Server 2.2.6 > Review Server Log Files > Review Error Log or C:/Apache2_2/logs/error.log
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