Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Viewing a file inside a cgi-bin?

[Bruce Van Allen <bva@cruzio.com>]

At 7:02 PM 12/7/00, tedd wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I might also suggest that if you are going to execute a cgi script 
>from within an HTML document on an Apache server you should try 
>using an .shtml suffix instead of an .html. I found this out 
>recently by attending this list.
>

That's configured in Apache by the sys admin, who can choose to 
enable SSI execution for .html if they want. Some commercial web 
hosts do so.

I just did it when I set up Apache under OS X. I have to say, BTW, 
that this is cool: having Perl (5.6!) available on the command line 
in a terminal window, and a UNIX/Apache web environment as a test bed 
for my CGI work -- in my own machine! Doesn't replace BBEdit with 
MacPerl in sheer handiness, but fun nonetheless...

My scripts mostly end up on servers running UNIX/LINUX, or even NT, 
which has its own config for SSI. I've encountered plenty of 
variations in how system administrators configure their web servers 
for SSI. So, the best thing is to *ask* how the server you're 
deploying on is configured:
  - which HTML file suffixes are allowed or required for SSI (.html, 
.shtml, .asp, ...)?
  - which SSI commands are enabled (echo, include, exec, ...)?
  - where may CGI scripts be placed (cgi-bin directory, html directory)?
  - how are CGI scripts executed (shell, Perl, ...)?
  - which suffixes are allowed or required for CGI scripts (.cgi, .pl, ...)?

1;

- Bruce

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