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Perl web form submit gets file download window rather than form execution and display

First, this may not be a purely PERL question.
We recently updated our PERL software on our LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl) system.
Subsequently, a form which had been working great (and the code has not been changed)
Now, instead of executing, when a user clicks on the submit button, it pops up a window asking the user if they want to open the perl program with the PERL command line interpreter.

Any ideas what might need changing to resolve this?

Stumped.

-G

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gmanpert

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Here is where I'm at:

> Did your apache httpd.conf change at all?

Anything is possible but most likely no.

> Do you have the ExecCGI option turned on for the directory the script is in?

Here are my Apache Settings in my httpd.conf file:

ScriptAlias /fperl "/www/htdocs/frms/fperl"
<Directory "/www/htdocs/frms/fperl">
AllowOverride None
SetHandler cgi-script
AddHandler cgi-script .PL .pl
Options +ExecCGI -Includes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

<Files "/www/htdocs/frms/fperl/simple.pl">
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
SetHandler cgi-script
</Files>

Here is simple.pl script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print"<tt>\n";
foreach $key (sort keys(%ENV)) {
print "$key = $ENV{$key}<p>";
}

Do you have the execute bit set for the webserver user?

The simple.pl script is owned by wwwrun with group www and is readable and executable by User, Group, and World.

Trying to view http://mydomain/fperl/simple.pl

Still gets me a pop-up window with the text, "Opening simple.pl. You have chosen to open simple.pl which is a PL file from http://mydomain What should Firefox do with this file?"

I'm sure I am just missing something obvious, but I'm not sure what.

-G

gmanpert

ASKER

Also, the simple.pl script works fine on another server... so you can definitely eliminate that as the source of the problem.

Basically, something is not turned on properly for CGI. Just not sure what?

-g

gmanpert

ASKER

I should mention that mod_perl is loaded, mod_perl.so is where it should be. So that isn't the problem either.

gmanpert

ASKER

Finally, resolved this. Apparently, once we updated Apache and PERL on our servers one needs to use this configuration:

ScriptAlias /fperl "/www/htdocs/frms/fperl"
<Directory "/www/htdocs/frms/fperl">
AllowOverride None
SetHandler perl-script
PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::PerlRun
PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
Options +ExecCGI
# AddHandler perl-script .PL .pl
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Thanks for the insights!