Am desperate: CGI Apache XP-home not working

Hi,

Please help me configuring my Apache server and/or browser with Windows XP Home. I prepared a test cgi (perl), which I call via a HTML form [see below]; when I submit via IE6.0, the windows content doesn't change, while the script is executed via a Dos-box (but the new content is not returned to the browser); when I do the same with Firefox 1.0.2, I get the scripts source text displayed (no execution, but file access).

I wonder, what is wrong.

I should add:
a) I see correct HTML-content when I run the script stand-alone from a Dos-box, write the result to a file and display it (both in IE and FF) => content ok
b) .pl files are associated with the perl.exe (ActivePerl) on my system => side effect?
c) I get a proper browser error, when I introduce an incorrect script name => Apache is working
d) I can not change file permission to 755 or so, because XP doesn't allow me to do so, does it?


I started with the default httpd configuration; the test cgi script is in Apaches default cgi-bin directory for simplicity; I did not activate the AddHandler directive, as it shouldn't be necessary; I varied the default entry for Option from None, to +ExecCGI and ExecCGI, while stopping and restarting the Apache server after each change: no difference.


httpd:
~~~~~

# ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
# ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
# documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and
# run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the client.
# The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives as to
# Alias.
#
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/Programme/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/"

#
# "C:/Programme/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
# CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
#
<Directory "C:/Programme/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
#Options +ExecCGI
#Options None
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>


HTML-form:
~~~~~~~~~
...
<form action="test.pl" method="post" enctype="text/plain">

<br><input type="submit" value="apache-directory test.pl">

</form>
...

test.pl:
~~~~~~~
#!c:/programme/Perl/bin/Perl.exe -w
##

use CGI qw(:standard) ;
print header();
print start_html;
print "Hello, world !!!";
print end();



Thanks for your help in advance.

Michael

Hi,

I made a stupid mistake in calling my files. I have to remind myself, I now work with a server, no longer with a filesystem. What I did was entering s.th. like:

file:///C:/.../test.pl

as URL, while ist should have been:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.pl


...


Sorry and thanks for caring.

Michael