Re: [MacPerl] CGI.s on local Mac

[Steve Lee Kelsch <steve_kelsch@MENTORG.COM>]

On 10/20/98 4:53 PM, lachlan wrote:

>Please forgive a newbie question:
>
>I'm trying to use MacPerl on my G3 PowerBook for local teaching and 
>testing (rather than on my ISP.s machines via a dial-up) and whilst I can 
>run Perl scripts fine in the MacPerl window, I have had no joy running 
>anything as a CGI on my local machine.
>
>I assumed I needed to use TCP loopback which I set at 127.0.0.1, I've 
>tried both Apple Personal Web Sharing and Net Presenz, following all the 
>Read Me's for 'sharing' a directory and enabling CGI, saving from MacPerl 
>'as CGI' but still, no luck.
>
>Can anyone please point me in the right direction; this is driving me 
>nuts.

You want to see your MacPerl results in your browser, right? If I 
understand your problem, this is very easy to fix. 

To open your web page w/cgi from your local machine:

1) Make sure all web server software is off.

2) Open the TCP/IP control panel. Setup like this:
     Connect via:        AppleTalk (MacIP)
     Congiure:           Using MacIP Manually
     MacIP server zone:  <current AppleTalk zone>
     IP address:         1.1.1.1
     Router address:     -leave blank-
     Name server addr:   -leave blank-
     Search domains:     -leave blank-

(You don't need to be connected to an AppleTalk network.)
(You can actually set 1.1.1.1 to anything you want.)

3) You can save the configuration, I saved as: 'Local' And with Apple's 
Location manager, you can switch between 'Local' and your settings for 
ISP.

4) Open the Apple's Web Sharing control panel.
     Select your web folder.
     And start it up.

5) When it's finished starting up, launch your browser and type in 
1.1.1.1 and hit return.

Let me know how it goes.
-Steve

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Steve Lee Kelsch                                  stevek@infosynth.com
Digital Media Director                                    503/685-1720
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Information Synthesis, Inc.                        Wilsonville, Oregon
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