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LinuxGnut
Asked: 2010-10-19 08:30:55 +0800 CST

Output of Perl Script isn't being rendered

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I have a client using "FormMail.pl", which I believe is taken from some perl repository around the net. We recently migrated her site to a new server and this script stopped working. I found a few items that weren't configured on the new Apache installation, and I now have the script running... but the HTML output isn't being rendered and the "Location:" redirect is also not working. Again -- the script worked fine on the old server.

print "Location: $safeConfig{'redirect'}\n\n";

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

Both of these statements just put something like "Location: thankYou.html" on the screen rather than any content. The HTML is not rendered.

Thoughts?

linux apache-2.2 perl

2 Answers

  1. There's a danger you have a notorious piece of poor code from Matt Wright's Script Archive. Replace it with the equivalent from http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/

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  2. Do you have something like:

    AddHandler cgi-script .pl

    in your Apache config file?

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