[MacPerl-WebCGI] Document contained no data

[Wolf Alexander Hauser <woffl@gmx.net>]

Hello,

I have written an HTML-Page for our school's newspaper, and
I think it's looking quite nice (www.nasobem.de). About one
week ago I decided I want to have a guestbook, my own counter
and maybe some more things I can only do by using CGI.

Now I have to learn programming CGI scripts, and I want to do
this in perl. I have bee searching for a Server software, and
I found one, called "Quid Pro Quo 2.1.2". I also found the
only perl interpreter available for Macintosh, called
"MacPerl 5.2Or4". But the thing doesn't work.
That's why I ask you to help me, although my English is not
perfect (12th grade german school english...). There will be
mistakes, but I expect you will understand my problem anyway.

I wanted to run the following small perl programm ("demo.pl"):
---------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello, Wold!";
---------------------------------------------

It's running fine in MacPerl.
(Script -> Run Script -> demo.pl)

It's also running on my provider's server. I loaded it up
into my cgi-bin-directory, and it runned well, Netscape 4.5
shows "Hello, World!" in the browser window.
(www.kollektivwissen.de/cgi-bin/demo.pl)

But it doesn't run on my own desktop. Quid Pro Quo opens
the MacPerl-software, but then, in spite of writing "Hello
World", Netscape gives an error:

"The document contained no data. Try again later, or contact
the servers administrator."

I am unable to solve the problem. Probably it is really simple,
and I'm just behaving very stupid, but I have tried everything
I could imagine to be responsible for the error. To be honest
I have to say that this was not much, as I have no experience
in things like cgis, servers and perl interpreters.

But I want to learn it, and therefore I ask you to help me.
Thank you very much,

Wolf Hauser

--
"HINREISSEND!" -- Frau Hack 1993 über Herr Pribils Vollbart



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