Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] need help with My first perl program

Hi Liming,

under Unix / Linux you start a Perl script by
typing
   perl myScript.pl   "MY LIST OF PARAMETERS"  ,
where myScript.pl is the name of your script file, and
you can obtain those parameters by a perl statement:
   print @ARGV;     .

You can also type the following as a URL into your browser:
   http://YourDomain.com/cgi-bin/myScript.pl  ,
and the output will be directed to your browser.
Under Suse Linux the file
   /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
has to have the lines
    ScriptAlias /perl/          "/usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/"
    ScriptAlias /cgi-perl/    "/usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/"
-- or wherever your cgi-bin folder resides.
(restart Apache after changing that "httpd.conf" file),
in order to enable the folder "cgi-bin" to execute
perl scripts from anywhere of the Internet.

And your script file has to have the right permission,
so type
   chmod 755 myScript.pl   .

- - - - -
The statement
    chmod +x test.pl
 i.m.h.o does not make sense.
nor does a statement
   test.pl   .

A statement
   . test.pl
means: The lines of the file "test.pl"
are interpreted as UNIX statements.
But UNIX won't understand Perl statements.

Regards,
Detlef Lindenthal



liming zhao wrote:

>  my current work directory is /opt/
>  I can run command line> perl -e 'print "hello, I love
> perl"'
>  But when I edit a file test.pl with the following
>  content:
>
>  #!/usr/bin/perl
>  print "hello, I love perl";
>
>  and execute command
>  chmod +x test.pl
>  but when
>  I type
>  test.pl and enter key
>
>  it is said "no command found!"
>