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Posted to dev@tomcat.apache.org by Amy Roh <am...@apache.org> on 2001/05/24 01:34:32 UTC
CGI perl on Windows
Was anyone able to run CGI perl scripts on Windows via Apache
successfully? I couldn't get it to work even though I have perl
interpreter installed on my windows machine. I can run perl scripts
fine on command line but not through CGI using Apache. I couldn't find
any docs on Apache limiting this restriction on Windows either.
As I am concluding CGI feature addition to Tomcat 4, I'm having problem
with running perl scripts via Runtime.exec() on Windows. It works fine
on Unix, however, I can't seem to create process using the perl
interpreter. I get IOException error=193 which means "not a valid Win32
application." Perl interpreter is in my PATH, and works fine on command
line. But why not using Runtime.exec()?
What's the correct behavior for Apache? If Apache allows this
limitation on Windows, then I guess it's okay to have the same
limitation running CGI on tomcat as well. I'm thinking that not many
people use CGI perl on Windows.
Amy
Re: CGI perl on Windows
Posted by Amy Roh <am...@apache.org>.
Kevin, thanks for the suggestion. However, the association is already set
up. I'm using the same ActivePerl from ActiveState. All my perl files with
.pl have a little yellow cute symbols which mean the association is there
already.
Amy
----- Original Message -----
From: "kevin seguin" <se...@motive.com>
To: <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: CGI perl on Windows
> i would guess the problems you are running into are related to .pl file
> types not being associated with the perl executable. what distribution
> of perl are you using? it's been a while... but the last time i
> installed perl on windows, i used the active state dist
> (http://www.activestate.com/) and i believe the installer set up the
> association. generally, perl dist's on windows have at the very least a
> script that will set up this association. i suppose you could also
> create the association yourself, by right-clicking on a .pl file,
> selecting "Open with...", then selecting the perl exe and checking the
> "Always use this program to open these files" checkbox.
>
> Amy Roh wrote:
> >
> > Was anyone able to run CGI perl scripts on Windows via Apache
> > successfully? I couldn't get it to work even though I have perl
> > interpreter installed on my windows machine. I can run perl scripts
> > fine on command line but not through CGI using Apache. I couldn't find
> > any docs on Apache limiting this restriction on Windows either.
> >
> > As I am concluding CGI feature addition to Tomcat 4, I'm having problem
> > with running perl scripts via Runtime.exec() on Windows. It works fine
> > on Unix, however, I can't seem to create process using the perl
> > interpreter. I get IOException error=193 which means "not a valid Win32
> > application." Perl interpreter is in my PATH, and works fine on command
> > line. But why not using Runtime.exec()?
> >
> > What's the correct behavior for Apache? If Apache allows this
> > limitation on Windows, then I guess it's okay to have the same
> > limitation running CGI on tomcat as well. I'm thinking that not many
> > people use CGI perl on Windows.
> >
> > Amy
>
Re: CGI perl on Windows
Posted by kevin seguin <se...@motive.com>.
i would guess the problems you are running into are related to .pl file
types not being associated with the perl executable. what distribution
of perl are you using? it's been a while... but the last time i
installed perl on windows, i used the active state dist
(http://www.activestate.com/) and i believe the installer set up the
association. generally, perl dist's on windows have at the very least a
script that will set up this association. i suppose you could also
create the association yourself, by right-clicking on a .pl file,
selecting "Open with...", then selecting the perl exe and checking the
"Always use this program to open these files" checkbox.
Amy Roh wrote:
>
> Was anyone able to run CGI perl scripts on Windows via Apache
> successfully? I couldn't get it to work even though I have perl
> interpreter installed on my windows machine. I can run perl scripts
> fine on command line but not through CGI using Apache. I couldn't find
> any docs on Apache limiting this restriction on Windows either.
>
> As I am concluding CGI feature addition to Tomcat 4, I'm having problem
> with running perl scripts via Runtime.exec() on Windows. It works fine
> on Unix, however, I can't seem to create process using the perl
> interpreter. I get IOException error=193 which means "not a valid Win32
> application." Perl interpreter is in my PATH, and works fine on command
> line. But why not using Runtime.exec()?
>
> What's the correct behavior for Apache? If Apache allows this
> limitation on Windows, then I guess it's okay to have the same
> limitation running CGI on tomcat as well. I'm thinking that not many
> people use CGI perl on Windows.
>
> Amy