On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 10:17 PM, David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > On 11/16/2014 06:20 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> rajulocal@hogwarts:~/public_html/perl$ cat mod_perl_rules1.pl >> print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"; >> print "mod_perl rules!\n"; > > ... >> >> However, if I point the iceweasel brower to >> http://localhost/~rajulocal/perl/mod_perl_rules1.pl , it launches the >> file download dialog > > > That is not a valid mod_perl program, and Apache requires additional > configuration to know what URL's are to be passed to mod_perl. For all > things mod_perl, please see: > > http://perl.apache.org/
Thanks for pointing out that Apache requires additional configuration. I initially looked at http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/intro/start_fast.html before posting to the list. But it was difficult to follow since the website tries to configure it differently than what seems to be Debian's way of configuring things. For example, it asks to add the following to httpd.conf LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so But there is no httpd.conf in Debian. Instead I found this in Debian root@hogwarts:/etc/apache2/mods-enabled# cat perl.load LoadModule perl_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so It talks about "Registry Scripts" without first telling what is actually meant by a registry script. So it was all confusing to me. > Without seeing your Apache configuration, it may or may not be a valid Perl > CGI script. Have you set the execute bit on the file? I finally got it working through some trial and error. Here is my configuration file root@hogwarts:/etc/apache2/mods-enabled# cat perl.conf <IfModule mod_perl.c> Alias /perl/ /home/rajulocal/public_html/perl/ <Location /perl> SetHandler perl-script PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry PerlOptions +ParseHeaders Options +ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all </Location> </IfModule> # vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet root@hogwarts:/etc/apache2/mods-enabled# ls -al perl.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 308 Nov 17 00:19 perl.conf It is interesting that for other modules (ex:- userdir) Debian supplies userdir.load, userdir.conf files . But for the mod_perl, Debian only supplies that perl.load file. Another issue was that, in the browser I was pointing to http://localhost/~rajulocal/perl/mod_perl_rules1.pl which opens up the download dialog. But instead, I should point it to http://localhost/perl/mod_perl_rules1.pl which works fine. I realized that this is due to the Alias directive. But no where in the docs http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/config/config.html , this directive is explained. Instead one is expected to refer to the docs of old version ( http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/config.html ) where these things are explained. In the hindsight, all this looks pretty obvious. But it took me a long time to figure it all out. > Note that PSGI/ Plack is a newer way to run Perl programs inside a web > server (Apache, nginx, and others): > > http://plackperl.org/ Ultimately, what I want to do is a very simple thing. May be I am using the wrong tools here and making it more complicated than it actually should be. Please point me in the right direction if this is the case. I have a perl script that takes a bunch of input parameters and spits some output. I wanted to write a web interface for it where I get the input from the user via "HTML forms" and pass it to the perl script, then run it and show the output. Should I use javascript for this sort of thing? If so, where does it fit in? Any pointers to good documentation are appreciated. thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CABpbYafPXAJh1gnH=uapz2vfluz1mcfb6dawu-hmmmsqpe8...@mail.gmail.com
