int Mobius[2] = {(CGI Newbie), (need help)}

mobius

Ok so I'm fiddeling about with a lot of cgi scripts lately and I was wondering if their are any Demo/Lite versions of Perl floating about on the web.
I just need something small and simple to exec my cgi/pl scripts, so I can see if they work before uploading them to my site.
I don't have UNIX of NT btw, so I guess I'm out of luck!

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Get muppited at:
http://www.gibworld.com/mobius

Karla

You should get the Win32 version of Perl from http://www.activestate.com

You can test CGI's two ways from the command line in DOS but that sucks because when it works it just runs off all the HTML.
Of course it's good when you've got errors cause it tells you where they are, most of the time

Or

You could get a free webserver like Apache (there's a Win32 port but I've never managed to set it up properly)

With that you can test it in your browser.

Oh and check out http://www.cgi101.com

That's pretty good for the older CGI's it doesn't cover CGI.pm, which is a blessing

Also check out http://www.perl.com
That's prolly better for the newer ones

Anyways
Hope I've helped, now anyone want to answer my question

Karla

mobius

Thanks for the help Karla, I'll download Perl
once I've finished downloadind Q3test, (gulp) been downloading it for over two hours now!
Ach! If I could use Javascript instead of CGI, I would. It's doing my head in, they JUST WON'T WORK!!! AAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!
((colapses in a ball on the floor))

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Get muppited at:
http://www.gibworld.com/mobius

Karla

Hehe, yeah I know the feeling, but believe it or not you get used to em!

If you're up for buying a book, O'Reilly's 'Learning Perl' is absolutely brilliant, and there's a chapter on CGI too, only one chapter but it'll get you going, it's enough to teach you nearly everything you need to know really.

Karla

mobius

Yeah I'll pick one up in Hodges&Figgs once I get a job ha ha ha ha haaaa!
But until then I'll have to stick to web-tutorials.
I already know some C++, so I recon I'd like it once I got started.

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Get muppited at:
http://www.gibworld.com/mobius

Karla

It just occured to me AFAIK there's a web server on the Win98 CD
Personal Web Server or something

Might be something worth looking into

Helv

There is a good Perl tutorial available at http://www.netcat.co.uk/rob/perl/win32perltut.html

Dont know if it contains anything about CGI, I havent read it as of yet. Hope it helps

gandalf

Mobius,

As far as I can tell the problem is with the way gibworld is set up. I'm trying to get a voting script working on with no luck. The reason is the script has to be executed thru their cgi server firewall which messes up the data path for the files. It seems to set a mirror up of all the files in the cgi-bin directory and sub-directorys but I think its not copying the file privilages properly. I'm in contact with the lads in gibworld and I hope to have this sorted soon.

Gandalf.

gandalf

Oh and the webpage is

www.gibworld.com/gandalf

No CGI up yet as it isn't writing to the data files

Gandalf.

mobius

Ya, cool-a-boola!
Post us what ever info you get...
What CGI U using anyway?

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Get muppited at:
http://www.gibworld.com/mobius

MiCr0

look at www.gibworld.com/micr0

MiCr0

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Karla

If you plan on writing any CGI's in Perl and you're thinking of using CGI.pm check out this URL, it's all you need to know.

http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/cgi_docs.html

Now, for some reason I decided I needed to rewrite all my CGI's and now they're fu(ked!
Don't you just love it