Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] help with cgi & macPerl

[Richard Smith <unfeasibly_tall@yahoo.com>]

An important thing to remember when running scripts
locally is that the file references are all different
in MacPerl, ie a file referred to as

/rootFolder/subFolder/targetFolder/file.html

will have to be changed to

:rootFolder:subFolder:targetFolder:file.html

I got fed up of changing all my file references when I
uploaded CGI's to my site, sO I use an AppleScript to
tell BBEdit to find and replace all the root folder
refs.

If your CGI is searching your site, it may be affected
by this anomoly.

Hope that helps a bit.

Richard

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--- Alvy <alvy@wncmarket.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have a web site that runs fine on the net, with a
> search cgi, we now need a portable version of the
> website to run on a ibook (mac os9).
> The web site runs file locally on the ibook until
> the search form cgi is used.
> I have read and scanned the post archive and found
> lots (too much ) information. 
> This is what i have done so far.
> 1. made a folder on the harddrive called "webroot",
> within that folder are the website and a cgi-bin
> folder.
> 2. Turned on Web Shareing, address 10.0.0.0 . 
> Selected the "webroot" as the web folder. 
> 3. Set the TCP/IP setting to AppleTalk(mac IP),
> configure "using macip manually" IP address
> "10.0.0.0"
> 4. Set TCP/IP to active
> 5. Installed MacPerl
> 6. Run MacPerl
> 7. Set the first line of the .cgi file to #!perl
> 8. open the location (rather than open page) of
> 10.0.0.0 and i get the web site fine.
> 9. When i enter a term into the search text box and
> hit search, after some time i get a page loaded
> saying "A CGI or internal server componet could not
> complete the requested action" 
> 
> Does this mean that everything is running ok, but
> the script is not configured for MacPerl?
> Or does it mean there are some other things i am
> missing?
> 
> I did not want to take up too much space and post
> the cgi script , however , I could post or send them
> to anyone for help.
> 
> Thanks so much for any advise.....
> 
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Alvy
> 

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