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I'm trying to understand Xampps modperl addon. I've installed it as documented.
So running the demos found in these folders works as expected:

Apache module: PERL/2.0.3
Extensions: .pl
Document root: \htdocs\modperl\
Configuration files: \apache\conf\perl.conf + \apache\conf\startup.pl
Examples: \htdocs\modperl\modperl.pl | Alias: http://localhost/perl/modperl.pl

Extensions: .asp
Document root: \htdocs\modperlasp\
Configuration files: \apache\conf\perl.conf
Examples: \htdocs\modperlasp\loop.asp | Alias: http://localhost/asp/loop.asp

However, any other ASP or PERL code I put in these respective folders will not run. I either get a blank page or a page not found message. I'm just grabbing simple code snippets from http://snipplr.com/, and saving them as test docs with the appropriate extension. I don't understand why simple snippets of ASP and PERL code won't run, but the demo code XAMPP provides does

Can anyone explain this? Thanks.

Regards,
Matt

Which code snippets are you using then I can try and replicate your issues as without them this is not possible for me to do.

Here's a simple example. I copied this PERL snippet from here: http://snipplr.com/view/5059/date-functions/
Looks like it returns the date in various formats.

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#
sub date_mysql2sec {
#takes: date in "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss" format (with some freedom)
#returns: date in seconds since 1970 format
    use Time::Local;# 'timelocal_nocheck';
    my $mysqldate = shift;
    $mysqldate =~ /(\d{4}).(\d{2}).(\d{2}).(\d{2}).(\d{2}).(\d{2})/;
    my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year) = ($6,$5,$4,$3,$2,$1);
    if ($mon != 0) {$mon--};
    return timelocal($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year);
}

sub date_sec2mysql {
#takes: date in seconds since 1970 format
#returns: date in yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss format
    my $secdate = shift;
    my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday) = localtime($secdate);
    $year += 1900;
    $mon++;
    $mon = $mon < 10 ? "0$mon" : $mon;
    $mday = $mday < 10 ? "0$mday" : $mday;
    $sec = $sec < 10 ? "0$sec" : $sec;
    $min = $min < 10 ? "0$min" : $min;
    $hour = $hour < 10 ? "0$hour" : $hour;   
    return qq{$year-$mon-$mday $hour:$min:$sec};
}

sub date_mysql_now {
#Takes: nothing
#Returns: current date and time in yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss format
    return date_sec2mysql(time);
}

I named it foo.pl. When I place that document at \htdocs\modperl\foo.pl, and run it from http://127.0.0.1/perl/foo.pl, all I get is a blank page. The only code that seems to work for both PERL and ASP test are very simple test's like "Hello World".

Regards,
Matt

These are bits of code, a snippet, and not a full perl script, so even though the syntax is correct they will never run as a script runs as they form only a part or bit (a snippet) of a complete perl script.

To use a snippet you would have to learn perl so you could include a snippet into your own script which is the purpose of the web site, a bits of code, snippet, repository http://snipplr.com/about/ - same applies to ASP snippets and to all the code snippets on the site you linked to.

This is the reason your "Hello world" script runs because it is a full script, but your code snippet shows a blank page because it is only a part of a full script.

To acquire free full scripts you would have to go to a web site like hotscripts.com and similar to test modperl and modperlasp in XAMPP.

sound reasoning. I'm more a PHP person, so i didn't know something was missing. I thought the problem was with the plugin, but it seems that's running fine. Good to know. Thank you for your help with this!

Your most welcome and glad I could be of some help.



Worth pointing here is that ASP.NET is not the same as Perl:ASP so any scripts aimed at ASP.NET will not work in XAMPP with or without the Perl Addon - see this faq:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/faq-xam ... s.html#asp

Also the ActivePerl web site may have more info on what Perl:ASP actually is for those researching the subject.