PERL Problem: Source Displayed

[alfred3x]

I have a series of vhosts. One of them requires PERL with MySQL database access. Having successfully installed xampp with vhosts (thank you, Izzy!) I'm now trying to access this web app.

The PERL portion is just the login page. But that comes up displaying the source file.

I've replaced the top line with:

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#!"D:\Program Files\PERL\bin\perl"

And here is the vhost:

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<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName ims.lastbyte.ca
  DocumentRoot "E:/Websites/ims/site/"
   <Directory "E:/Websites/ims/site/" >
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
      AllowOverride FileInfo
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
   </Directory>
   CustomLog "E:/Websites/ims/logs/access.log" common
   ErrorLog "E:/Websites/ims/logs/error.log"
</VirtualHost>


Any help appreciated.

- AAA

[Izzy]

There is a full perl plugin here:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#644

Some reading that might help:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/co ... etersource

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mo ... criptalias

In the xampp/cgi-bin directory are various test scripts that you can use in your site's cgi-bin.

I have set up cgi-bin in all my virtual host containers useing a ScriptAlias.
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "Path:/to-each-vhost.cgi-bin/cgi-bin/"

In the httpd.conf file the relevant cgi reading starts here:
<IfModule alias_module>
You may have to make edits below this line or include edits, to change the default behaviour, in each of the vhosts containers that need cgi.

HTH

[alfred3x]

Thanks, Izzy. A couple of questions:

Isn't PERL included in the XAMPP package? (I thought it was)

Can I set it up to run PERL scripts in the regular directory? (i.e. in the same directory as my HTML and PHP files)

Thanks again!

- AAA

[Izzy]

There is a mini perl included in the release that may do all that you need.
There is a full perl plugin that is as it says, the full perl install if you think it is required. Personally I prefer the full install then I may eliminate any problems in the future use of perl scripts.

Your other question and possibly others you might have are well covered in this tutorial:
http://www.cgidir.com/tutorials/Beginne ... e_101.html

Basically you comment out:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/xampp/cgi-bin/"

Good Luck