How do I run perl script from local host?
I have installed Apache 2.2 and Active Perl 5.16.3. I am able to run the perl scrip from command prompt. But since i am dealing with web application, i want it to be run from localhost.
However, I am getting the following error in the browser
Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please help me out!
Your problem is probably related to the configuration of Apache. (It may be Apache that needs configuring for .cgi scripts) - If this is the case then you can find good info on this here:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=44536
http://www.cgi101.com/book/connect/winxp.html
http://www.editrocket.com/articles/perl_apache_windows.html
There is usually a host of things that you need to do to get it working. Following a good HOWTO to make sure that everything is installed and configured correctly will usually get you going to execute scripts on your local Windows machine.
You could run cgi script from web browser. CGI means that it should send a HTML header before sending any output to the server (which is going to send it back to the browser).
http://perldoc.perl.org/CGI.html#NAME
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/perl/cgi.html
Like this:
use CGI; # load CGI routines
$q = CGI->new;
print $q->header; # create the HTTP header
print $q->start_html('hello world'); # start the HTML
### your script logic goes here
print $q->end_html; # end the HTML
Of course, CGI is outdated, for new development you should use some mmore recent framwork like: Dancer, Mojolicious, ...
if someone is looking for an answer in year 2017 then follow this on windows 2010 machine.
Download Strawberry perl from perl site Install in default directory.C:\Strawberry
Download Apache from https://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi#apache24
Once you successfully get apache server running then
Place your perl scripts in your Apache24/cgi-bin/ folder. firstline of your perl script should point to path where perl is installed for my case it is #!C:/Strawberry/perl/bin/perl.exe you should change your path according your installation folder
Filename - first.pl
#!C:/Strawberry/perl/bin/perl.exe
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello, World.";
