[MacPerl-WebCGI] Bingo

[tedd<tedd@sperling.com>]

Brian & Chuck:

You were both right -- many thanks. Now, I can take over the world.

However, to take question with Chuck, I found using --

    "<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/hello.cgi"-->"

-- as compared to --

    "<!--#exec cgi="cgi-bin/hello.cgi"-->"

-- didn't make any difference as evidenced by --

    http://www.sperling.com/hello.shtml

  -- as compared to --

    http://www.sperling.com/hello2.shtml

However, I don't understand the difference in reference. My cursory 
understanding is that using "cgi-bin/hello.cgi" means to look within 
the current directory for "cgi-bin" whereas, using 
"/cgi-bin/hello.cgi" suggests to me to look one level deeper?

In my readings, I have come to understand that Perl has some 
interesting "search for the file" features and this may be an example 
of it. Anyone care to elaborate as to what Perl does in searching 
directories for referenced files? In other words, how close, or far, 
must one be in reference to a file for your Perl program to find it?

Many thanks to all.

tedd


Brian said:

>
>You'll likely have to name your files with a .shtml extension to get the
>server to interpret them. Beyond that, I'm not immediately sure, but that is
>the way NetPresenz and Quid Pro Quo work.
>
>Brian


Chuck said:

>2 mistakes:
>(1) Change file handle to "http://www.sperling.com/hello.shtml".
>(2) Your path call should start with "/" as in
>"<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/hello.cgi"-->".
>Hint: "Always go to the source" -anonymous
>In this case the source is:
><http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html>
-chuck
-- 
http://sperling.com/
_______________________________________________________
Thinking about buying Jewelry?
Try our site: http://earthstones.com

==== Want to unsubscribe from this list?
==== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-webcgi-request@macperl.org