[MacPerl-WebCGI] Don't need to go out for Chinese?

[tedd<tedd@sperling.com>]

Bruce wrote --

>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...
>
>-snip-
>
>- Bruce


-Bruce:

Thanks for your comments. I am really fuzzy about this "server 
running on my machine so that I can test my cgi script" thing. Please 
excuse my ignorance, but that is unimaginable to me at the moment.

If I hear you right, then you have a server running on your machine 
so that you can set-up a client/server thing to test stuff? Wow!

As it is now, when I want to test my cgi stuff, I:

    1. Write the cgi script (check the code over and over before running);

    2. Upload the script to my remote server and set permissions;

    3. Write a HTML document to execute the script;

    4. Run Netscape to run my html pages that execute my cgi scripts 
(in a hole at the bottom of..);

    5. View results and try to figure what when wrong;

     6. Repeat items 1-5 until everything works or when I forget why I 
was doing it.

I have to say that it's a bitch of a "write and debug" process -- 
it's the worst programming environment I have ever experienced. Even 
in my old Apple][ days I could write and debug pretty easy before 
running the Einstein compiler to compile code. Now, I feel that I'm 
back to CS 101.

tedd
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