wheres a great place for super simple perl tutorials?

**flamewavetech** · Dec 6th, 2001, 01:54 PM

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** · Dec 6th, 2001, 02:42 PM

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

**flamewavetech** · Dec 6th, 2001, 04:00 PM

k now what do i do that i got perl?

**flamewavetech** · Dec 6th, 2001, 04:07 PM

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

**CiberTHuG** · Dec 6th, 2001, 04:16 PM

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** · Dec 6th, 2001, 04:20 PM

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** · Dec 6th, 2001, 04:20 PM

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** · Dec 6th, 2001, 04:43 PM

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

**flamewavetech** · Dec 6th, 2001, 04:55 PM

isnt CGI one of perls main purposes?

**CiberTHuG** · Dec 6th, 2001, 05:05 PM

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** · Dec 6th, 2001, 05:47 PM

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** · Dec 9th, 2001, 03:51 PM

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** · Dec 9th, 2001, 10:22 PM

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** · Dec 15th, 2001, 12:17 AM

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** · Dec 15th, 2001, 06:45 AM

#!c:/program files/perl/bin

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

**flamewavetech** · Dec 15th, 2001, 11:36 AM

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

VB Code:

#!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

**da_silvy** · Dec 15th, 2001, 12:00 PM

i don't know what the problem is

**flamewavetech** · Dec 16th, 2001, 12:23 AM

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

**da_silvy** · Dec 16th, 2001, 01:01 AM

http://thefreesite.com/Free_Web_Space/

www.hypermart.net

www.spaceports.com

www.freedomtosurf.com (closing down soon)

just search for them

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