I am new to cgi and would like to know how to set up a cgi-bin on win xp so that i can test my forms out before being uploaded to an ISP. I do know some ASP but this is not required for now. hope someone can help. Dan
mat
1:56 pm on Aug 5, 2003 (gmt 0)
Do a search for ActivePerl from Active State.
danthemanuk
2:29 pm on Aug 7, 2003 (gmt 0)
Sorry i think i should have been more specific. What i am trying to achieve is a form which a user enters details (name, company email etc) into text boxes on a web page (this has been done). When they click on submit, the form details go to the server (currently my XP machine) and this in turn generates an email which is sent to an email adress e.g. info@domain.com. At least this is my understanding of how it will work (correct me if i'm wrong). I've downloaded Active Perl 5.6.1 and have never used this before. Hope you can help and that this is clear. Thanks for any help Dan
mat
2:54 pm on Aug 7, 2003 (gmt 0)
This is quite a large subject - do a search here for Active Perl and you'll get all sorts of useful threads such as this one [webmasterworld.com].
You're going to have do some reading and a fair bit of trial and erroring, but what you've described is a pretty bog-standard setup of a local web server with perl running on Win32 for testing purposes.
