How to envoke a Perl script in /cgi-bin

sakshale@ · Apr 5, 2007

Could someone point me to some documentation, other than the FAQs, on how to use perl?

My problem is simple. I want to run a perl script as my root document, to envoke the real script in /cgi-bin. I have the following script in [domain]/httpdocs/wiki.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
package OddMuse;
$DataDir = '/wiki';
do 'current.pl' or die;

How do I specify the path to [domain]/cgi-bin/current.pl in the wrapper script?

sakshale@ · Apr 6, 2007

Some followon information.

I had created a test.example.com subdomain, but the perl script was not even being envoked. It simply printed as text on the browser.

I discovered that in [domain]/conf/httpd.include there was the statement Options -Includes -ExecCGI

This was caused by the options CGI support and mod_perl support not being selected under the settings menu for the subdomain.

Fixing that changed my symptoms to printing a blank page, instead of nothing.

Perl now works, but the main program does not. Perl can be testing by running the following test.pl script.

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<HTML><HEAD>";
print "<TITLE>CGI Test</TITLE>";
print "</HEAD>";
print "<BODY><H2>This is a test page using Perl!</H2>";
print "</BODY></HTML>";

sakshale@ · Apr 6, 2007

Well, I not having much luck. I've been changing the include statement to see what it takes to get it to work.

The error message I see in the log file is: [error] Died at /var/www/vhosts/[domain]/subdomains/test/httpdocs/wiki.pl line 4.\n

Line 4 is variations on: do './test.pl' or die;

The test.pl script exists in both the [subdomain]/httpdocs directory and the [subdomain]/cgi-bin directory.

I have tried: test.pl, ./test.pl, /test.pl, /cgi-bin/test.pl.

The only variation that works is: /home/httpd/vhosts/[domain]/subdomains/test/httpdocs/test.pl. Do you really need to have the physical path included? If so, what good does the cgi-bin directory provide?

sakshale@ · Apr 6, 2007

Just a verification for completeness: [domain]/conf/httpd.include does include the following two statements;

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/vhosts/[domain]/cgi-bin/
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/vhosts/[domain]/subdomains/test/cgi-bin/

It seems to me that statement should allow /cgi-bin/test.pl to work.

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