What is wrong with my perl script?

[meediake]

My code:

#!/usr/bin/perl //this is correct!!!
printf "tere\n";

and the URL, where it is:
here (http://www.vile.ee/cgi-bin/3.pl)

[Jeff Mott]

CGI scripts need to print a header before the actual content. e.g.,print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

[meediake]

it didn't help, seems like PERL is not perl, it is EDL -> Error Displaying Language:mad:

[Afrow UK]

Try either using just "print" or #!/usr/bin/perl -w

-Stu

[Jeff Mott]

Assuming you printed out the header correctly and nothing else was changed in your script, the problem is not with the coding of the script itself. A few other common problems to check: double check the path to Perl; uploading the script as text rather than binary; and make sure the permissions are set correctly.

[dswimboy]

i think you need a blank line after the first declaration.

try this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

printf "tere\n";

[meediake]

i figured out what there had to be "--" after #!/usr/bin/perl, so it has to be just like this: #!/usr/bin/perl --

Thank you anyway!

[Jeff Mott]

Then the real problem is probably because you are uploading as binary rather than text. The two hyphens are a means of avoiding this, but I'd guess that you'd still have problems with <<HERE documents.

[meediake]

nop, I'm using ConText, that I save all perl files in UNIX format before uploading them to linux server.