On Wednesday 07 July 2004 12:15, Jerry Preston wrote:
> I am looking for a way to run Active Perl CGI on my PC that is setup on
> Windows XP. I have installed Apache and I am trying to figure out how
> to
> set it up the Virtual Host mode to run Perl script with CGI like I do on
> my
> work SUN station. Any ideas on how do this or is there a better way?
Hi Jerry,
what exactly do you mean by saying "set it upt the Virtual Host mode"?
I'm running CGI scripts written in Perl on a W2K machine - the steps for
setting this up are (more or less):
- install ActivePerl out of the box
- (optional:) add ".pl" to the PATHEXT environment variable (this lets you
execute "*.pl" scripts without having to type the ".pl".
- install Apache
- add/modify the following lines in your httpd.conf:
# call Perl to execute .pl scripts
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
# use the Perl interpreter you find in the registry (as opposed to the on
# specified on the first line of your perl script); setting this option may
# help if you want to be able to run your scripts on Unix and Windows.
ScriptInterpreterSource Registry
Now you've got multiple choices:
a) put your perl scripts into apache's cgi-bin directory
b) create a directory entry for the path where your CGI scripts are:
<Directory "D:/myperlscripts/web">
# This line is necessary for CGI scripts
Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
# Tailor as you need
Order allow, deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
c) create a virtual host, set the document root and add the Options shown
above in the directory entry.
For me, this is working nicely.
I've read about successful installations of mod_perl on Windows as well (which
should be better in terms of performance), but I couldn't get it working.
HTH,
Philipp
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