Perl

[christiand14]

Hi, I have downloaded a free script for my site which requires Perl and I has wondering how to use this in cPanel as I cannot find it. This (#!/usr/bin/perl) is a common place according to the instructions. Please could you tell me how to access it. Thanks

 

[v4xde]

I have the 500 error, i have changed the directories and script to 777, and others and still not working.

I know that the script is working as I use it on another similar server.

I just wanderer if the free account does not give Perl access.

Thanks for your anserws in advance.

 

[christiand14]

What is the path to Perl? Do you go through a file manager? Sorry i'm new to this!

 

[descalzo]

If you place the script in the cgi-bin directory,

1. Permissions set to 0755
2. #! /usr/bin/perl the first line
3. Uploaded in ASCII mode, not binary, especially if you are working from a Windows machine
4. If you use Notepad++ make sure that the encoding does not have a BOM
5. print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; before any output
6. I usually add use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); which doesn't help with 500 errors, but does help other debugging.


use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

 

[christiand14]

If you place the script in the cgi-bin directory,

1. Permissions set to 0755
2. #! /usr/bin/perl the first line
3. Uploaded in ASCII mode, not binary, especially if you are working from a Windows machine
4. If you use Notepad++ make sure that the encoding does not have a BOM
5. print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; before any output
6. I usually add use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); which doesn't help with 500 errors, but does help other debugging.


use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

Thanks will try that now! :wink:

 

[christiand14]

What should I do when I come across a 500 error. I uploaded all of the files as it says in there readme file and when it tells me to go to a certain page i get my custom 500 error page. What should I do?

 

[christiand14]

Problem Solved!

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