wheres a great place for super simple perl tutorials?

[flamewavetech]

im gona try and learn perl. but i have no clue how to get anything to work and i have to clue how to set it up on my computer. i want to be able to test the scripts on my computer which has a apache web server running on it. but i dont know how to configure it to run.

is there a place to learn all of these things?

[JoshT]

If you're running Windows, go to www.activestate.com and get Perl.

[flamewavetech]

k now what do i do that i got perl?

[flamewavetech]

when i got to a perl script it says "couldnt spawn child proccess" in the server log.

[CiberTHuG]

I don't know if this is in any way related, but there are certain Perl functions which are not (will not be) implimented under Win32. Fork() is one of them.

Atleast it was.

In the meantime. Can you write and run a simple "Hello, World" script?

[flamewavetech]

ye the script works fine when i run it with the command line. but when i put it in the cgi-bin of my apache server and then go to that url with IE is when i get the error.

[flamewavetech]

im completely new to perl so for all i know it could be something u would consider to be really easy that im getting wrong.

[CiberTHuG]

Ah, well, I've never messed with CGI. So I don't know if there is a configuration trick with your web server.

[flamewavetech]

isnt CGI one of perls main purposes?

[CiberTHuG]

Oh no, Perl was not written because of CGI. The two were married, but not related from birth.

You could have fun with shell scripts or Rexx if you wanted to. :)

[flamewavetech]

so does anyone know how to get perl cgi to work on apache? i tried going to configuration file and adding a .pl handler

[flamewavetech]

i think the problem is i cant get the first line right where u tell the comp the path to the interpreter. this is what it is right now

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

and in the apache error log it says it was unable to spawn a child proccess for it.

please help.

[Wynd]

Did you install perl? If you did, change that line so it points to the perl.exe file (ex: "C:\Program Files\Perl\perl" or something).

[flamewavetech]

Did you install perl? If you did, change that line so it points to the perl.exe file (ex: "C:\Program Files\Perl\perl" or something).

ye i installed perl. and the line in cgi always looks something like #!usr\local\bin\perl\ not "c:\program files\perl\perl"

[da_silvy]

#!c:/program files/perl/bin

that should be the "shebang" line in ur cgi files i think ;)

[flamewavetech]

nope didnt work. this is the content of the .pl file right now

#!c:/perl/bin
printf "hi";


thats the path to my perl interpreter.

heres the address to the file if my comp is on.

click here to view the .pl file (http://24.10.112.194:81/cgi-bin/html.pl)

[da_silvy]

i don't know what the problem is :rolleyes:

[flamewavetech]

then could u point me to a easy to use FREE web host that provides a cgi bin??

[da_silvy]

http://thefreesite.com/Free_Web_Space/

www.hypermart.net

www.spaceports.com

www.freedomtosurf.com (closing down soon)

just search for them