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Thanks Peewee,<br />
<br />
ScriptAlias showed me there was already a cgi-bin, but in a different directory. AddHandler was commented out.<br />
<br />
I've moved the code to that directory and it's now working. Well done.
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Thanks Peewee,

ScriptAlias showed me there was already a cgi-bin, but in a different directory. AddHandler was commented out.

I've moved the code to that directory and it's now working. Well done.

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Stoke,<br />
glad to be of help<br />
<br />
regards Peewee
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Stoke,
glad to be of help

regards Peewee

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Hi,<br />
<br />
I'm a web-server newbie. I'm playing with a Linux box and have installed apache. I've got some perl scripts with a cgi extention and when I try to run them it shows the code in the browser window. I've put the code in a directory called perltest. The server doesn't have a cgi-bin directory yet. How do I get it to run the scripts?<br />
<br />
Yours,<br />
<br />
Stoke
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Hi,

I'm a web-server newbie. I'm playing with a Linux box and have installed apache. I've got some perl scripts with a cgi extention and when I try to run them it shows the code in the browser window. I've put the code in a directory called perltest. The server doesn't have a cgi-bin directory yet. How do I get it to run the scripts?

Yours,

Stoke

cgi script is displaying the script not the results

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