Re: [MacPerl] Testing a perl cgi offline

[John Neale <jneale@webshowcase.net>]

Hi. I'd just like to thank everyone for their tips on getting my off-line
perl testing to work. It seems that the main trick I had missed was to set
my TCP/IP to AppleTalk (MacIP) and not PPP. I am pleased to report
everything is now running smoothly (with IP address set to 1.1.1.1 for ease
of use)

I looked at NetPresenz - a nice piece of software from the Anarchie stable
- but since I'm only doing this as a temporary solution, I'll stick with
Apple's own Personal Web Sharing that was pre-installed on my machine.

To get the script to launch properly, I have to export it from BBEdit5.1 as
a CGI script. This seems to get it to launch MacHTTP automatically, feeding
the output back to my browser. Have I understood that correctly??

I'm only guessing here - but could I circumvent this by setting Personal
Web Sharing (in Edit->Preferences->Actions) to launch MacHTTP when it hits
a .pl text file, and then run the .pl file with MacPerl?

Anyhow, thanks once again for the help...

John

>I am working with MAcOS 7.6.1 at the moment because it's faster than
>8.6 for most things.  So I am using NetPresenz as my server.
>
><ftp://ftp.stairways.com//stairways/netpresenz-41.sit.bin>
>
>Whatever local server you are using...
>
>Set up a TCP/IP config set with just the following
>
>Connect via:AppleTalk (MacIP)
>Configure:Using MacIP Manually
>IP Address:127.0.0.2
>
>I think you can use any IP address you want, for example it makes no
>difference whether I write 127.0.0.2 or 158.152.20.126, which is my
>fixed IP address allocated by Demon.  Others are probably far more
>knowledgable than me on these questions, but I have things working
>with this set-up and can FTP HTTP or Gopher to my own machine without
>a connexion to the Internet.
>
>You can switch to this congig set using the control strip or set up a
>location to use it.  I hate the fuss of the location manager but I
>suppose it has its uses once you've set it up.
>
>JD

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