Beginner in Perl/CGI

[Strice]

Did I mention I was a beginner at this?

I am learning Perl5, and thought I'd try a test script. Well shock, I can't get the sucker to work. Simple, easy thing:


Code Sample:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl #=============================== # Testing CGI script installation # Copyright 1999, Emmie P. Lewis # Created 07/24/99 #=============================== # This script is designed to test # CGI script installation #=============================== print "Content-type: text/plain", "\n\n"; print "Yippee! It works!";

I've put this in the cgi-bin directory in my root directory, right? i.e.:
/big/dom/xchainmailconnection/cgi-bin
And to access it, I try using the url:
http://www.chainmailconnection.com/test.cgi
But when I try that, I get a 404 error. I know the case is correct, and I chmod'ed it to 755. What am I doing wrong??

--Sara

[Bartoni]

I think you need to access it from
http://www.chainmailconnection.com/cgi-bin/test.cgi

(cgi-bin missing?)

[Strice]

Duh.
I mentioned I was a beginner, right? :þ

Thanks for the tip.
--Sara

[Deb]

I dunno Bartoni, my 'beginner's script' said

print "Hello World!";

Had I so much as typed

print "Hello People!";

I would have thought that was the problem

I take code examples waaaayyyy too seriously and it really blows the idea of creative examples :þ

Deb
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 Still a beginner

[Strice]

Well I'm glad I'm not the only beginner. I've been using computers since I-don't-want-to-think-how-long-it's-been, but this programming stuff is pretty new. And talking to guys that have been programming in anything for a while makes me feel like I'm a leaf on a Nascar track. Vroom!

--ST