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Posted by Chris Beall on 12/04/05 19:11
Norliss wrote:
> Hi all
>
(snip)
> I've followed the instructions to the letter for Soupermail, novice.cgi
> and FormMail but I can't get any of them to work. No matter what I do, I
> keep receiving 500 Internal Server errors.
(snip)
Norliss,
Rather than starting with something complex, you need to establish that
you have gone through the correct steps to invoke and run a Perl program
from your server. Try uploading the following (untested... and note
that the DOCTYPE must appear on a single line) code as hello.pl, then
try to link to it. If you still get a server 500 error, there's
something basic about the upload or invocation of Perl that you need to
look at. Once that is fixed, you can move on to the more interesting
problems associated with actually getting the server to send out mail.
Chris Beall
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<'ENDPART1';
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Perl test page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Perl test page</h1>
<p>This is a test of the ability to invoke and run a Perl program from
within a web browser.
If this message appears, the test was successful.
</p>
</body>
</html>
ENDPART1
exit ;
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