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The following are answers to
common questions in the
Microsoft FrontPage Client Newsgroup:
Setting up
M.S. PWS to run Perl
Prerequisites:
The Microsoft Personal Web Server
(MS PWS) must be installed on the system.
Steps:
- Download
Perl for Windows 95/NT
- Create a Perl5 folder on
your hard drive and extract the contents of the
self-extracting .exe to that directory; remember to preserve
the folder names and file names.
Your directory layout should
look like the following after the extract:
\Perl5\bin
\Perl5\docs
\Perl5\eg
\Perl5\lib
- Run the perlw32-install.bat
batch file from the \Perl5\bin directory.
- Make sure that the
installation updated your path in your c:\autoexec.bat file
to include x:\Perl5\bin (where x: is the drive letter you
installed Perl).
The above steps will install Perl
5 on your Windows 95/NT PC. The steps below will configure
the Microsoft Personal Web Server to run Perl5.
- Click on Start, Run,
regedit.exe
- Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- Expand System
- Expand CurrentControlSet
- Expand Services
- Expand W3Svc
- Expand Parameters
- Expand Script Map
- Right click within the right
pane/frame (of Script Map) and select New, string value.
- Enter .pl
- Modify .pl and enter the
full path to the perl.exe program along with "%s %s"
example: e:\Perl5\bin\perl.exe
%s %s
- Create additional entries
for ".cgi" and ".plx"
- Exit Regedit.
- If MS PWS is running then,
then start and stop http services.
See
Configuring and Testing a PERL Script with IIS if you have
any questions concerning the above steps.
The steps below will set up a cgi-bin
or cgi-local (your choice) folder for use to contain your Perl
scripts:
- Start FrontPage Explorer,
and change to Folder View.
- If you don't currently have
a cgi-bin or cgi-local folder, create a new folder and name
it cgi-bin or cgi-local within FrontPage Explorer.
- Within FrontPage Explorer,
right click on the cgi-bin (or cgi-local) folder and select
properties.
- Check the box to allow
scripts and folders to be run.
Do the following to test your set
up:
- Using notepad (or any text
editor), enter the Perl script below, save it to your cgi-bin
(or cgi-local) directory and name it "env.cgi"
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<HTML><BODY><PRE>";
print "<ul>";
foreach (sort keys %ENV)
{
print "<li> Env Var key: $_ value $ENV{$_}";
}
print "</ul>";
print "<br>";
print "</PRE></BODY></HTML>";
exit 0;
- Now browse http://YOURLOCALHOST/cgi-bin/env.cgi
Remember to substitute the name of
your local PWS/host above. Also replace "cgi-bin" with "cgi-local"
if you are using a "cgi-local" directory.
The above script should display
all of the environment variables the server (PWS) can see.
PROBLEM
SOLVING
If you do the above and it does
not work, then check the following:
- MIME types are set up
for .cgi and .pl (to check / remove MIME types, start
Windows Explorer, click on view, options, file types).
- Folder where you placed the
CGI script is not marked execute (run).
- Registry settings are not
correct.
- You are using the FrontPage
Personal Web Server instead of the Microsoft Personal Web
Server.
- You are browsing the .cgi or
.pl as a file instead of a web address such as
http://default/cgi-bin/env.cgi
- The script you are using has
syntax errors, logic errors, or does not output proper HTML.
Resources:
Perl
FAQ
The
Idiot's Guide to Solving Perl CGI Problems
--
Peter Abraham |
