[ale] Apache not running .pl files

[Stan.Hearn at ipst.edu]

At 04:53 PM 6/12/00, you wrote:
>I had the original version of apache that came with RH6.1 running just fine. I
>recently installed the latest version of apache via source code. (not rpm).
>It's up and running fine, Except, for the cgi/perl stuff. I can run the .pl
>file by typeing in the full url into a browser, but  calling it in the html
>file does nothing. No error message, nothing. I've tried to compare the old
>and new httpd.conf file, but can find no differences. I checked rights on the
>directories also. Still stumped. Any ideas?

Are you doing server side includes (SSI)?  Try chaning the HTML extension 
to .SHTML and see if it runs.  If it does, you need to enable parsing of 
SSI's in your conf file.

Since there's no difference, it's probably a change in default settings.

STAN

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