Re: Perl Problems

[Will Vervair <2524@MN2.LAWSON.lawson.com>]

This worked GREAT! Thanks!!!!
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From: pi3-users-request
To: 2524
Cc: pi3-users
Subject: Re: Perl Problems
Date: Tuesday, December 02, 1997 1:34PM

>
>
> Thanks John,
> I did not know this list was so new. Anyway here is the question.
>
> I am trying to get some perl scripts from Matt's Script Archive
> <http://worldwidemart.com/scripts/> to work. The script that I am working
on
> is the web message board. I had modified it to work on a win95 webserver
> (fnord) and it worked fine. I am getting this error when I try to test it.
>
> CGI: error DoExecCGIChild() failed. Error code is 2. Start of command line 

> is 'perl c:\cgi-bin\acboard.pl'
^^^
2 means 'file not found' at some point I'll use FormaMessage() to
get the text for windows errors. In this case it means the perl
interpreter was not found. You have three options to fix this:

        1) make sure the path to Perl.exe is in the PATH environment
        variable. A good way to test this is to invoke the bundled
        viewenv.exe program. If you bring up a dos box and type
        'perl c:\cgi-bin\acboard.pl' this emulates what the server does
        (note this is different from 'c:\cgi-bin\acboard.pl' which makes
        windows use the .pl to find the appropriate program).

        2) Open the file Conf\Config.pi3 and go down to the section
        ...
        <Object>
                Name StandardCGI
        ...
        Theres a bunch of options there to customize exactly how CGI's
        are started. Find the line
                CommandLineByExt .pl="perl %p%q"
        Remove this line, save the file, stop and start the server to cause
        Pi3 to start CGI's with .pl extensions like all others allowing
        windows to figure out how to exec file script using its 
associations,
        lots of web servers do this.

        3) Explicity point to your perl interpreter, same as above but
        change
                CommandLineByExt .pl="perl %p%q"
        to
                CommandLineByExt .pl="c:\\perl\\bin\\perl.exe %p%q"
        Where 'c:\perl\bin\perl.exe' is the full path to your perl 
interpreter

Hope this helps,
John
>
> That is the correct path to my CGI dir and the script. When I run
acboard.pl
> from the command line it works just as it should so I don't think it is in 

> the script.
>
> Any ideas??
>
>
>  --
> Will Vervair
> will.vervair@lawson.com
>