Topic: Apache 2.2.4, ActPerl 5.8.8.820, Win2K .pl won't resolve

[donphillipe]

This is so weird, this worked the first time I tried it but after stopping and restarting Apache, the printenv.pl file will no longer resolve and IE6 tries to download it as a file. (I might add that although it did resolve initially when the extension was .PL, the information shown did not have line breaks like it does when I rename the extension to .CGI. The exact same file when ended in CGI works fine.)

httpd.conf changes:

<Directory />
#added ExecCGI
Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Satisfy all
</Directory>

<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache2.2/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

AddHandler cgi-script .pl

*********END OF CONF file


If I try to resolve http://localhost/cgi-bin/printenv.pl with IE6, the file tries to download and is not interpreted, if I rename the same file to printenv.cgi the file resolves properly:

How can I force a XXX.pl file execute like it does when the extension is CGI ??

Output from http://localhost/cgi-bin/printenv.cgi .....

COMSPEC="C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe"
DOCUMENT_ROOT="C:/Program Files/Apache2.2/htdocs"
GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI/1.1"
HTTP_ACCEPT="*/*"
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING="gzip, deflate"
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE="en-us"
HTTP_CONNECTION="Keep-Alive"
HTTP_HOST="homeserv"
HTTP_USER_AGENT="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)"
PATH="C:\usr\site\bin;C:\usr\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;D:\TOOLS;C:\Program Files\PHP"
PATHEXT=".COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH"
QUERY_STRING=""
REMOTE_ADDR="0.0.0.0"
REMOTE_PORT="0"
REQUEST_METHOD="GET"
REQUEST_URI="/cgi-bin/printenv.cgi"
SCRIPT_FILENAME="C:/Program Files/Apache2.2/cgi-bin/printenv.cgi"
SCRIPT_NAME="/cgi-bin/printenv.cgi"
SERVER_ADDR="192.168.0.202"
SERVER_ADMIN=" "
SERVER_NAME="homeserv"
SERVER_PORT="80"
SERVER_PROTOCOL="HTTP/1.1"
SERVER_SIGNATURE=""
SERVER_SOFTWARE="Apache/2.2.4 (Win32)"
SYSTEMROOT="C:\WINNT"
WINDIR="C:\WINNT"

Note: PHP is installed in directory C:\USR (default changed from C:\Perl)

[James Blond]

How does the line with the AddHandler for the cgi look like?
Maybe you need to set AddType

e.g.
AddType cgid-script .pl