Execute Perl .pl file on webpage?

[edro]

How do I execute a .pl file in a webpage? If I go to the root directory now, then click on the file, it works.

I guess I could forward the URL to the actual file name...

 

[Armitage]

take a look at the docs for mod_perl
In particular, on linux/apache, you need to load the mod_perl module with some code like this:

#
# Mod_perl incorporates a Perl interpreter into the Apache web server,
# so that the Apache web server can directly execute Perl code.
# Mod_perl links the Perl runtime library into the Apache web server
# and provides an object-oriented Perl interface for Apache's C
# language API. The end result is a quicker CGI script turnaround
# process, since no external Perl interpreter has to be started.
#

LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so

# This will allow execution of mod_perl to compile your scripts to
# subroutines which it will execute directly, avoiding the costly
# compile process for most requests.
#
Alias /perl /var/www/perl
<Directory /var/www/perl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry::handler
PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
Options +ExecCGI
</Directory>

This is from the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/perl.conf on my RedHat 9 system, slightly edited for my sitation.

I'm just learning this stuff, so other inputs are appreciated. You should also be able to run it as a CGI program without mod_perl, but I don't know how to do that, and mod_perl is supposed to be much faster.

 

[Armitage]

and, fwiw, this should be over in the software forum, and will likely get moved there.

 

[cchen]

what does the script do?

 

[notfred]

You don't NEED mod_perl at all.

How do you execute it? Just load up the URL of the script, if CGI is enabled on the webserver, it'll run.

 

[edro]

Yeah, it works that way, but I want it to run on the address bar from the root URL.

Example: www.domain.com/script.pl -----> Works fine

I want it to execute that script when I go to www.domain.com

I have tried: <!--#exec cgi="/folder/script.pl"--> , but it does nothing.

 

[Templeton]

This isn't a perl config issue, it's a http server issue. Assuming you are running apache, edit httpd.conf, look for a line like 'DirectoryIndex index.htm, etc...' add the filename you want served as an index to this line. Alternatively, and probably better, is to do this in a .htaccess file in the dir.