cgi script is not executing

Question

I have a perl.cgi file which has the content:

#!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "<h1>Hello World</h1>\n";

I made it executable. (chmod a+x perl.cgi)

Then I created a new file perl.htm in the same directory. Which has the following data:

Content-type: text/html <p><a href="perl.cgi">RUN perl.cgi</a></p>

When I run the perl.htm in my browser then I get the output as:

Content-type: text/html RUN perl.cgi

When I click on RUN perl.cgi another page opens and there the output is:

#!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "<h1>Hello World</h1>\n";

i.e. the perl.cgi is not executing. Only the file contents are being shown.

EDIT: From the answers and comments I came to know that I will have to configure my web server (apache) to run cgi scripts. How can I do that? Let me know.

You need to describe your web server setup in far more detail. — Chris Eberle
– Chris Eberle, Commented Sep 19, 2011 at 13:40
Voted to move to serverfault.com but ... try renaming the file to 'perl.pl'. If that's not it you need to configure your webserver corectly for executing perl cgi — Brian Roach
– Brian Roach, Commented Sep 19, 2011 at 13:42

Gabriel Ross · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-19 14:17:40Z

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Sounds like Apache is not configured to run *.cgi files:

AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl <Directory /path/to/cgi/files> Options +ExecCGI </Directory>

edited Sep 19, 2011 at 14:17

answered Sep 19, 2011 at 13:42

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Chankey Pathak Over a year ago

Done, still having the same problem

Chankey Pathak Over a year ago

I am still unable to run cgi. Please help.

reinierpost Over a year ago

@Chankey Pathak have you read the documentation? Apache configuration is hairy, it pays off to study it in detail.

Alexandr Ciornii Over a year ago

Chankey Pathak: What error is in log files? If you copied it from Windows, fif you transfer it in text mode?

yellavon · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-19 21:43:47Z

Make sure you are loading the CGI module in the httpd.conf file:

LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so or LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgid.so depending on which version of Apache you are running.

You can also read about additional solutions for Dynamic Content with CGI.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:01:43Z

Problem has been solved. I was not using httpd service at all, was opening from file:// URL.

Perl script is not executing in HTML form

blankabout · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-19 13:42:57Z

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You need to setup your web server so that it executes *.cgi files (or, more normally, all the files in a particular directory) rather than just delivering them to the browser as it does .html files.

How this is done depends on your server.

answered Sep 19, 2011 at 13:42

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Chankey Pathak Over a year ago

I am using apache. How can I configure it to be able to run cgi?

blankabout Over a year ago

See the answer from @Gabriel and maybe add ScriptAliasMatch ^/cgi-bin(.*) "/full/path/to/cgi/directory/$1" in your <IfModule alias_module> section

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