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On 25 Nov 1996 22:42:32 GMT, mattb@Deakin.Edu.Au (Matt Bottrell)
wrote:
[snip]
>
>> When I send a simple form, the best I can do is either just get a listing of
>>the CGI script in Netscape or the script (which simply prints data input in the
>>form) runs with the output displayed in an xterm shell but with none of the
>>form data. The tricky bit is knowing how to get httpd to work only with a
>>loopback setting. I presume it can be done but I don't know if i need to or how
>>to set up the name server files.
>>
>
>	Hmmm, have you informed apache that these files are indeed scripts?
>	It appears you might need to look at your suffixes on your
>	CGI or even setting up the path to execute them.
>
>	You might wish to take a look at a well written book by S. Gundavaran
>	on the subject of CGI.
>
>	It's called 'CGI Programming on the World Wide Web' and is
>	published by O'Reillly and Associates, Inc.
>
>	It does seem to cover a lot of the questions you are having and
>	it also lists ways of setting up your httpd server.
>


you might want to check out the CGI.pm perl module for perl 5.003
(http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/ftp/pub/software/WWW/) which makes forms
_very_ easy to write and maintain. I'm using it to create an interface
between postgres95 and the web. (not ready for view yet though)

cheers,
jcm


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