Help with server side .cgi script

beenie · Dec 30, 2006

I have been learnning PERL and CGI from "PERL and CGI for the world wide web second edition" written by Elizabeth Castro. I am having no trouble understanding and writing the programs and getting them to exicute. I want to get some forms to work on my server and am having a lot of trouble finding the correct line of code to get them to exicute on my server. I am putting the following code in my public_html folder. I call it testform.html
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>test form</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="http://www.merlwebdesigns.com/cgi-bin/testform.cgi" method="POST">

First Name <input type="text" name="first" size="12" maxlength="12" /><br />
Last Name <input type="text" name="last" size="12" maxlength="12" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="name" value="submit button" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
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and the following code in my cgi-bin folder. I call it testform.cgi
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#!/usr/bin/perl

my $first;
my $last;
$first = param('first');
$last = param('last');

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "First name is $first<br />";
print "Last name is $last<br />";
print "Thank you for submitting your name to me";
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My server notes that the path to perl is: usr/bin/perl

I think it's my action statement that is not correct. Can anyone get me the proper line of code to use in my action statement in testform.html to make my .cgi script exicute?
Thanks in advance,
Beenie

chrisranjana.com · Jan 19, 2007

What is the error message you get ?
Hopefully you have set 755 permissions on the.cgi script

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