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reefland
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Feb 22, 2000, 4:03 PM

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Permission Denied	Can't Post

I am new to perl and cgi (trying to get through the basics). I have copied a perl script that is supposed to allow information from a form to be posted, but when the submit button is pushed, I get exec()returned: 13: Permission Denied. I believe that I have the path to perl correct perl/bin (location of perl.exe) and that is at the top of my page. My script is in a cgi-bin obviously. I tried to set the permission with chmod 755 but 1. is this only for unix and 2. where would i locate the command in my script?
Any help is appreciated

perlkid
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Feb 22, 2000, 6:50 PM

Post #2 of 5 (380 views)

Re: Permission Denied [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi,

Yes you only need to chmod folders and directories on unix platforms and a few other unix type platforms like linux, and the path to perl for unix is

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

#!/usr/bin/perl

#!/usr/local/bin/perl5

#!/usr/bin/perl5

depending on your server it will be one of those. Most likely the first one.

You should post your script so people can look at it. I can't begin to tell you how to fix you program without seeing it. I may not be able to tell what your problem is but if you post it at least others will be able to take a look.

perlkid

reefland
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Feb 23, 2000, 1:19 AM

Post #3 of 5 (380 views)

Re: Permission Denied [In reply to]	Can't Post

ok here it is

#!perl/bin/perl

chmod 755 geturl.pl

# Get HTML header, ender, define the page title.

# Get the query string.

$QueryString = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};

@NameValuePairs = split (/&/, $QueryString);

# Put up an HTML Header, page title and a rule.

print "BODY>\n";
print "<H1>&Title</H1>\n";
print "<HR>\n";

# Split each of the name-value pairs and print them on the page.

foreach $NameValue (@NameValuePairs)
{
($Name, $Value) = split (/=/, $NameValue);
print "Name = $Name, value = $Value<BR>\n";
}

# End geturl.pl

Now does the first command have to be like that, it can't resemble my first line?

brian.hayes
User

Feb 23, 2000, 3:18 AM

Post #4 of 5 (380 views)

Re: Permission Denied [In reply to]	Can't Post

Comment out:

chmod 755 geturl.pl

to:

#chmod 755 geturl.pl

It looks like you trying to have the scripts chmod itself. This needs to be done another way i.e tenet, console

Brian Hayes

reefland
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Feb 23, 2000, 2:02 PM

Post #5 of 5 (380 views)

Re: Permission Denied [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks for the help here, but I figured it out. The only problem was I had to set the chmod permission through WS_FTP once the script was in the cgi-bin. It was a matter of right-clicking on the file and changing the permission to execute for all.

I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED MY FIRST CGI SCRIPT (HHHOOOOORRRRAAAAYYYY)

Now that I can get the information to post back to the visitor of my page, how do I get the information back to me? That will be my next challenge. Once again, thanks for the help, and I'm sure you'll see reefland back here with a new topic.

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