Hello System Admin | Where system admins share technical article and tips | Create free Blog | Updates on domains, web hosting, servers and more » Perl http://hellosystemadmin.com Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:50:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 configure perl in apache http://hellosystemadmin.com/blog/configure-perl-in-apacheache/ http://hellosystemadmin.com/blog/configure-perl-in-apacheache/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:14:08 +0000 Aneesh http://hellosystemadmin.com/?p=422 In order to browse  perl files (.pl) through apache serer you need to  add few lines in apache configuration file ( httpd.conf)

Add the following in  httpd.conf

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

Now find the following section

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

Add   +ExecCGI to the options list. So it  looks like as follows now

Now find the following section

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

Now save httpd.conf and restart Apache server

Create a sample perl file called test.pl and add the following lines  and save it.

#!/usr/bin/perl
print “content-type: text/html \n\n”;
print “Hello, Perl!”;

Now browse the page

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