Re: Perl Problems

[Ang-Chih Kao <akao@MIT.EDU>]

At 02:49 PM 12/2/97 CDT, Will Vervair wrote:
>
>This worked GREAT! Thanks!!!!
> ----------
>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


John, you are truly amazing.  From one simple error line, you can identify
the problem, as well as various avenues of solution.

:)