Hi Everyone, I am a soul in distress !
This is my first post and I'm new to using Apache.
I have a web site which is using Perl within its many sub programs. The main page contains a html header and footer.
I have been editing my Perl scripts on my home computer and then uploading the scrips via my filezilla ftp program. After the upload I would refresh my webs main page to see if I had made any errors or not. (usually I do and the program crashes) and I hastelly have to undo the changes back and re-upload the file before a visitor sees my crash errors page.
I have had enough of that and wanted to create and pre-test my Perl scripts off-line first and then upload.
I read that Apache would allow me to test my Perl code offline, and downloaded the file. The installation went smoothly. No errors. I was able to bring up the Apache control console and it looked nice.
Since there is no documentation manual in English, I am at a loss on how to fix my problem so here I am.
My problem is when I am offline, I open my ie7 browser on my windows xp computer and the browser works. I do get the Xampp greating page when I search for it and my other html pages show up too.
When I type in the ie7 browers window the html page for my web site "f:/.....path..../index.html", the index.html page shows up. The html print statements show up, but where the link is to go to my xyz.pl is, there is no action.
I am pretty sure that I have the path config correct.
The html link to the Perl "xyz.pl" page is:
<a href="127.0.0.1/f:/......path..xyz.pl"></a>
In my xyz.pl file, the first line is:
#!perl
#!"F:\program files\xampp\perl\bin\perl.exe"
I have tried to change the file permission of both index.html and xyz.pl to "read" but this did not help.
I had XAmpp open and running in the background while off-line.
It seems that the Perl coding is not recognized even with my Norton Internet Security turned off during my offline trials.
Have I done something wrong? Have I set my paths properly?
Cheers