Re: Serving scripts locally

On Tue 23 May, Colin Mackinlay wrote:
> Is it possible to configure my RiscPC with !Perl so that I can run and
> test cgi-bin scripts locally?
> 
> Is it easy?
> 
> What do I have to do?
> 

I have never managed to set it up to run cgi scripts directly.  I do test
my scripts (300+ now), but not through the browser (unfortunatly).

Some people have managed to get !Netplex to run in a way to test scripts I
have failed (more than once).  !Netplex if it works at all only works with
a cgi-bin not with a large real website that allows scripts anywhere.

What I do is put a wrapper in standard code in all scripts so that I can test
them easily from the command line in a taskwindow I allow any script to
take argumenets from either the command line separted with space as it
is more natual or & so that they look like on the servers.  Or through a
command file.  Using this I can test 80% of the functionilty of the scripts
easily - the rest have to be tested on the real sites.

Richard

(I manage 8 websites now 3 with full cgi, 2 with limited and 3 with none)

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