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Hi
I've spent about 2 days trying to run a cgi script from an html page with no luck. I've downloaded several scripts and anything that doesn't need me to call it from a page works fine so I guess I'm calling it wrong. I've tried all of the forms I can find, my html reads as:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<!--#exec cgi="/home/lincsman/public_html/cgi-bin/clock.cgi"-->
<p>
<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/clock.cgi" -->
<p>
<!--#include virtual="/home/lincsman/public_html/cgi-bin/clock.cgi" -->
<p>
<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/clock.cgi"-->
<p>
<!--#exec cgi="/home/lincsman/public_html/cgi-bin/clock.cgi"-->
<p>
<!--#exec cgi="http://www.artworld.x10hosting.com/cgi-bin/clock.cgi"-->
<p>
<!--#exec cgi="/home/lincsman/public_html/cgi-bin/clock.cgi"-->
</body>
</html>
but http://www.artworld.x10hosting.com/clock.html produces a blank page.
If I call it from the browser bar it work:
http://www.artworld.x10hosting.com/cgi-bin/clock.cgi
or another:
http://www.artworld.x10hosting.com/cgi-bin/textclock.cgi

A script I installed to check the details confirmed:
Path and URL information:

Your path to Perl is correct
Your server is running Perl version: 5.008008
Your domain name is: www.artworld.x10hosting.com
The complete system PATH to this script is: /home/lincsman/public_html/cgi-bin/test.cgi
The URL of this script is: http://www.artworld.x10hosting.com/cgi-bin/test.cgi

Please help if you can!
Many thanks in advance.
 
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lincsman said:
Hi

but http://www.artworld.x10hosting.com/clock.html produces a blank page.
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Blank, but not empty.

Try changing the extension to .shtml since you are trying to use SSI Not sure if SSI is enabled.

Edit/Add

Add folowing to .htaccess file:

Code: 
Options +Includes
AddType text/html shtml
AddHandler server-parsed shtml

That will get the server to parse the file. Not sure if it will enable the "exec" tag.
 
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Many many thanks descalzo as simple as that, you were right, I just had to change the page to shtml. How did you know that I was using ssi please?
 
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lincsman said:
How did you know that I was using ssi please?
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Code: 
<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/clock.cgi" -->

and the rest are SSI directives. People don't use them much anymore.
 
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