on-rev.com Perl recipe

Sun Nov 1 18:17:19 EST 2009

Yes, after a few tries ....

The script was simple :
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> print <<HTML;
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>A Simple Perl CGI</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <h1>A Simple Perl CGI</h1>
> <p>Hello World</p>
> </body>
> HTML
> exit;
It's in http://www.alextweedly.on-rev.com/cgi-bin/hw.pl

It's actually in <my home folder>/public_html/cgi-bin/hw.pl
permissions is 755

The thing that took me a few tries was line endings - I initially 
transferred it with the on-rev client (from Windows), and that failed to 
convert the line endings (file was 210 bytes locally and on the server).

I switched to transferring it with FileZille (setting the transfer type 
to ASCII, not leaaving it as auto - just to be safe). Now the file is 
210 bytes on my laptop, but 196 on the server - and now it works.  I had 
a similar problem (only took hours to solve it) when I tried using Python.

So - any time I have a problem on on-rev, first thing I do is look at 
the line endings ...

Good luck
-- Alex.

Michael Kann wrote:
> I'm happy with how easy it is to get started with the on-rev website. I'm stuck, though, with trying to get a Perl script to work. Can anyone post a working setup recipe? I only need a feeble "hello" to get going. 
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> I guess I'll need:
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> name of file
> text of file
> placement of file on server
> extension on file
> permissions on files and folders
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> I've tried every permutation of the above and nothing has worked. 
>
> Thanks in advance.
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> Michael Kann
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