CGI Help. Can't execute

[wizzz]

I have a little CGI program I want to test on my local host.

So I put the cgi file in my "cgi-bin" directory and I use a simple HTML form to call the cgi script.

Now when I open the HTML page, it has a "submit" button and when the button is pressed, it will call the cgi script.

However, when I click on the button, the cgi script does not execute.
Instead it will show the cgi file in text format.

What am I doing wrong?


p.s. I'm in windows environment, and as far as I can tell I checked all the box to allow read/write/execute.

 

[notfred]

p.s. I'm in windows environment, and as far as I can tell I checked all the box to allow read/write/execute.

That doesn't make any sense, windows doesn't have file permissions like that.

 

[wizzz]

Well... I was trying to say that when I right clikc on a file on windows -> properties
and go to the security tab, there are check marks for read, write, execute, and some other stuff.

I was trying to say that all those check boxes have been checked.

 

[notfred]

I'm assuming the CGI is written in perl.

Do you have perl installed?

 

[wizzz]

DOH!!!

I just read your post and I realized that I didn't change the perl path from
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

to #!C:\perl\bin\perl -w


Thanks!