#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: text/plain", "\n\n";
print "Hello World in Perl", "\n";

http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi
it has Internal Server Error

http://localhost/cgi-bin/
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this server.

how to run cgi?

My core script that runs my CMS is a perl script, and I need to find a way to get it working, preferably from within a www/cgi-bin folder, although I find myself wondering if that will help, either.

My main problem is in altering the file paths in my Perl script, which I can get working with no problem for the script output, but it cannot find its accompanying scripts in the same directory!

I've done the following to get myself set up here:

• I've gone ahead and updated my US installation to the latest Coral version (I confess, I greatly miss the toolbar controls!) and have installed Active Perl appropriately.
  
• I've transferred my site to www/ and my cgi scripts to the main UniServer/cgi-bin directory.
  
• Forced the shebang change--I understand I'll have to return all edits before going live, but that's something I'm willing to do...
  
• Altered all program paths in the scripts configuration file.
  
• Tested the script, it works, but can't find anything in my scripts folder. i.e., here's the error I keep getting:
  "Can't locate /cra_changedatenew.pl in @INC (@INC contains: D:/UniServer/cgi-bin/coranto D:/UniServer/usr/lib .)" And YES, the file is in the @INC directory.
  

I've tried various ways of reconfiguring this, but this is ridiculous. Certainly, I should be able to run and test cgi scripts on a US dev server and upload them with minor alterations back to my live server. What am I missing here?

CGI is the core of my CMS, and I can't use US if I can't use it seamlessly.

Any and all help is appreciated.

How can I get Perl installed? I have followed the directions included with Uniserver to the letter without success.

I am using US43 Mona with Perl and i have a perl process using more than 2 Go of memory (using module gedcom.pm for genealogy).

The process is broken by an "out of memory"

This is set by 'Ulimit'

Have you a simple solution to put ulimit > 2 Go ?

Config. :

Windows XP SP3

US43 Mona

available memory : 3 Go

micmoren

However... I'm trying to dip my toes in the deeper waters of a CGI / Perl type script, i.e. the Movable Type package and that's giving me a headache. Admittedly, it's been a while since I last tinkered with Perl, but I'm getting 500 errors left and right, and just can't get a handle on where to start.

So here's a classical newbie question: assuming one has UniServer up and running, and downloaded and installed the "full" Perl package (I used the most current and biggest package to have all modules, i.e. V5.2_full_perl.exe ) and then picked up Movable Type v5 (MT5) and followed the installation steps right through step 5, what else does one need to do to get the MT configuration wizard going?

I'm just stuck with stubborn 500 errors, and the UniServer error log shows several lines of this:

- [Wed Apr 06 16:08:08 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] attempt to invoke directory as script: D:/UniServer/cgi-bin/mt/

What am I doing wrong?

Just to be clear: I'm not asking for help with MT - that's what the MT documentation is for - instead I'm looking for guidance to get to the point where the installer works. For some reason, calling up the installation script throws out those HTTP 500 errors I showed above, i.e. by going to this direction:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi

Very strange...

Today I decided to try Nano 5.6.6, and ran across some interesting niggles regarding path-to-perl handling:

-- I think it is fine to leave the perl libs out of the new release, but a little readme in the /usr folder giving a url to the download would be helpful.

-- Apollo recognizes the generic /usr/bin/perl path. Nano doesn't; it needs /UniServer/usr/bin/perl which is localized. Problem: Someone used to uploading to CVS straight from Uniform Server is going to get a lot of complaints if one doesn't remember to go through the scripts and edit the shebangs. Can Nano be told to accept the generic path?

-- The shebang fixer in the new version is a nice touch, but it is too hungry. It must match #! only at the beginning of a string. For instance, a perl script might contain a conditional that begins like

if (/^#! ([A-Z]+) (.+)/) {

but the shebang fixer changes it to

if (/^#!G:/UniServer/usr/bin/perl.exe

which of course throws an exception next time the sub is loaded.

-- As a courtesy, Nano should save an original copy of any file it changes.

I like the new version and interface. Lots of improvements and new looks.

Perl 5.10 does not have a working Interbase / Firebird module.

The last functional one was written for Perl 5.6.

I replaced Perl.exe and perl510.dll in "UniServer\udrive\usr\bin" with no luck.

Could any Forum member advise?

Thank you.

Best Regards,

Emil

I was wondering if there is ANY way at all to make UniServer work with "#!/usr/bin/perl" instead of the whole path? Change something inside the software to know that #!/usr/bin/perl is equal to the whole path to perl that I would manually set?

I use UniServer to test scripts on my PC, but I then upload them to a server so it's pretty inconvenient having to change that every time...

Any and all ideas are greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

I see there are some examples on Wiki pages with #!/usr/bin/perl , what am I doing wrong?

Trying to get Bugzilla working on Uniform Server.

When i go to http://localhost/bugzilla I get:

Software error:

Can't locate Date/Parse.pm in @INC (@INC contains: . lib Z:/usr/lib) at Bugzilla/Util.pm line 51.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Bugzilla/Util.pm line 51.

Compilation failed in require at Bugzilla/Hook.pm line 26.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Bugzilla/Hook.pm line 26.

Compilation failed in require at Bugzilla/Config.pm line 37.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Bugzilla/Config.pm line 37.

Compilation failed in require at Bugzilla.pm line 38.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Bugzilla.pm line 38.

Compilation failed in require at Z:/www/bugzilla/index.cgi line 34.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Z:/www/bugzilla/index.cgi line 34.

Any ideas?

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, albert.drent@rug.nl and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache/2.0.59 (Win32) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.3 Server at localhost Port 80

I have a default install and a default httpd. The first pl line is:

#! /usr/bin/perl

#

# CGI perl module for 'usva' application server

# V1.0

# author

# Albert Drent

# for RuG Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (BIV)

I looked in the errorlog and found:

- [Thu Jan 29 11:00:12 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Can't locate IO/Socket.pm in @INC (@INC contains: W:/usr/lib .) at W:/cgi-bin/avw.pl line 16.\r

What configuration somewhere could be wrong? There is a socket.pm but the subdir io is missing.

albert

university of groningen

I can not seem to run scrips from the main directory or the cgi-bin, and yes THE FILE IS IN THE DIR.

Please help me get this working.

This the result on the webpage:

Internal Server Error

 

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

 

Please contact the server administrator, admin@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

 

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Apache/2.0.59 (Win32) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.3 Server at localhost Port 80

Here is the error log:

[Fri Dec 05 07:58:51 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified. : couldn't spawn child process: W:/cgi-bin/hello.pl

- [Fri Dec 05 07:58:51 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified. : couldn't create child process: 720003: hello.pl

- [Fri Dec 05 07:54:53 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : couldn't spawn child process: W:/www/hello.cgi

- [Fri Dec 05 07:54:53 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : couldn't create child process: 720002: hello.cgi

- [Fri Dec 05 07:52:11 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified. : couldn't spawn child process: W:/cgi-bin/hello.pl

- [Fri Dec 05 07:52:11 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified. : couldn't create child process: 720003: hello.pl

- [Fri Dec 05 07:32:26 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : couldn't spawn child process: W:/www/hello.pl

- [Fri Dec 05 07:32:26 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : couldn't create child process: 720002: hello.pl

- [Fri Dec 05 07:29:11 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : couldn't spawn child process: W:/www/hello.cgi

- [Fri Dec 05 07:29:11 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : couldn't create child process: 720002: hello.cgi

- [Fri Dec 05 07:28:23 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : couldn't spawn child process: W:/www/hello.cgi

- [Fri Dec 05 07:28:23 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : couldn't create child process: 720002: hello.cgi

- [Fri Dec 05 07:23:58 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified. : couldn't spawn child process: W:/www/hello.cgi

- [Fri Dec 05 07:23:58 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified. : couldn't create child process: 720003: hello.cgi

This is the cgi

#! /usr/local/bin/perl

# hello.pl -- my first perl script!

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print <<"EOF";
<HTML>

<HEAD>
<TITLE>Hello, world!</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
<H1>Hello, world!</H1>
</BODY>

</HTML>
EOF

I've tried this:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2219/Makefile.PL

but I just get a 500 server error.

Anyone know how to do this? Been spending all day on this and no luck so far...

Any and all help is appreciated!

I really don't know anything about perl, but I'm moving an old website over to US and it includes some links to perl scripts for click tracking etc., but they don't work.

I've tried placing the perl scripts in a cgi-bin folder within the site's folder, one level above the folder and also in the cgi-bin in the w\ folder, but the scripts simply don't run like they used to when they were on another host.

As an example, I have a table listing files that can be downloaded, with a counter that shows the number of downloads, and the html source is currently:

<a href="../cgi-bin/track.pl?p=/downloads/vbrun300.dll">vbrun300.dll</a>

<img src="../cgi-bin/img_counter2.pl?sc=/downloads/vbrun300.dll" width="32" height="16">

The two perl scripts track.pl and img_counter2.pl are the scripts I want invoked.

Can you tell me what, if anything I need to change to get these working, please?

Many thanks,

Paul.

Perl lib version (v5.8.7) doesn't match executable version (v5.8.8) at W:/usr/lib/CGI/Carp.pm line 314.

Compilation failed in require at W:/usr/lib/Time/Local.pm line 5.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at W:/usr/lib/Time/Local.pm line 5.

Compilation failed in require at W:/cgi-bin/plans.cgi line 172.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at W:/cgi-bin/plans.cgi line 172.

Any suggestions?

Al

However, I've been unable to get my Perl Dev project running. At first, I attempted to follow up on the suggestions in this topic:

http://forum.uniformserver.com/index.php?showtopic=470

But, they didn't do the trick. Finally, I just tried copying over the contents of ActivePerl's "perl/lib" directory to US's "usr/lib" directory, and it seems to have done the trick. BUT, I want to be sure that this solution is the correct one, and that it won't hurt anything else in my US installation. Can anyone confirm?

Is there any way to configure US to allow cgi-bins in each www subfolder?

How can I run Perl script interactively?

I could create Perl scripts and place them in cgi-bin and run it using http://localhost/scriptname.pl

I found Perl.exe in W:\usr\bin. I could type stuff in it, but received no response.

What am I missing?

Thanks

I had a problem with the win32::TieRegistry with ActivePerl 5.8.7 build 813 since it could not find the TieRegistry.pm.. eventually l ran the ppm and downloaded the module.. everything was working fine till l started the dbd-oracle download via the ppm.. since it is 78mb the inconsistency in the connection killed it twice at 10 and 12 Mb..

Then I downloaded from cpan a lot of tar gz files.. which l dont know how to install on win platform.. all the help will be appreciated as l hit deadline tomorrow and l still cant connect to my Oracle 8i since when l use

use win32::ODBC

it gives and error saying oracle.pm not found

(Sorry for private email)

Nikhil. J

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq8.html#How-...le-from-CPAN%3F

And it says, naturally:

The easiest way is to have a module also named CPAN do it for you. This module comes with perl version 5.004 and later.

 

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell

 

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.59_54)
ReadLine support enabled

 

cpan> install Some::Module

But if I call Perl with the CPAN arguments as shown in the first of three blocks above from the command line (in Windows) it complains that it doesn't speak CPAN-ese.

So... How do I properly call CPAN?