Help with VERY basic perl

[dparedes]

I am trying to make hello world in perl.

here is what I currently have:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$text = 'hello world';
print "$text\n";


I made a folder called cgi-bin in the public-html folder but all i get as an output is
500 internal server error

Can some one please help me

 

[diamondpc]

I think you should have posted this in programming.

 

[Livewire]

I think you should have posted this in programming.

Read the last part; the 500 Internal Server Error is a possible free-hosting problem, not a programming problem.

It's in the right area, I just dunno how to fix it. Just posting to acknowledge it -is- in the right spot.

 

[diamondpc]

Right on.. i wasnt sure.. thats iwhy i said what i did..lol just kick me.

 

[adamparkzer]

The way I'm used to doing the perl Hello World is by using print "Hello World";. I dunno if that has anything to do with your problem, though.

I've seen 500 Internal Server Errors when people have had defective .htaccess files. Check and see if there are any lines of code in your .htaccess file that are combined into one line and thus misinterpreted by the server.

 

[dparedes]

My .htaccess is empty it doesn't have anything on it

 

[leafypiggy]

There may be something with a MIME type you need to add.

No clue though. The only time I ever worked with perl was when I tried to save FileFront. haha

 

[ProperNoun]

Yeah, you're not sending a content type header. Don't worry, this is by far the most common new-to-Perl speed bump. Try this...

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; # Always.
use warnings;
print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";
my $text = 'hello world';
print $text;

...and don't forget file permissions.