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Perl, CGI And SSI Advice
By Chris Crum
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2007-02-23
One of the goals of our WebProWorld forum is for people to help each other with problems that may be having whether it be in marketing, eCommerce, or coding.
We don't like to see requests for help go unanswered, so I thought I would do one of our members a service by getting his post to a wider audience.
And with the post being about Perl, why not see what our beloved PerlProNews subscribers would have to offer in the way of advice?
The post comes from our member named
Hello all,
Here is the situation:
I'm updating an old perl/cgi shopping cart system that we used to use on our site. I'm updating it because it has a special feature built into it that we want to use in our current set up.
I know pretty much nothing about perl (or files in the cgi-bin for that matter) but I've managed to get the pages generated by perl to look like the rest of our site...with one exception. I can't get any of the SSI to work!
The perl code calls an html template which resides in the cgi bin with the perl programs. The template acts as a "shell" for the perl code if you will.
I've tried just about every combination on calling the include that I can think of (virtual, file, ../, / etc..) but I just can't get it to show any of the includes. I then tried moving the template to the root folder and changing the template file location in the perl code to the template file in the root folder. Nope! Although I can see the includes if I just manually bring the page up (www.site.com/template.html).
I've also tried putting the include files in the cgi-bin in the same folder as the template file but that doesn't seem to work either.
Am I beating my head against a door that won't open? Am I missing something simple?
I do apologize, I'm not real familiar with perl or working with files in the cgi-bin.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
DaK
As Dak said, any help is appreicated. Please offer your comments here.
About the Author:
Chris is a staff writer for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest ebusiness news.
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