CGI Blank Screen

[Kyderoy]

I am not a coder but I am trying to setup a web site that require Perl. The site is installed but when ever one of the cgi pages is called I get a blank screen.

I am running IIS on windows server 2003.

[KevinADC]

Can you post a small sample script you are trying to produces a blank screen? Has the server been setup to run scripts?

[Kyderoy]

Here is the sample code.

c:\perl\bin\perl.exe
# ^^^ this must be the first line of the script! ^^^
# start code

use strict;
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;

# print header and start the markup output

print $q->header( "text/html" ),$q->start_html( "hello from perl cgi!" );
print $q->h2("hello dave...");
print $q->end_html;
# end code

[KevinADC]

The problem appears to be the very first line:

c:\perl\bin\perl.exe

this is a special line and needs to start with '#!', so try this and see if it produces output:

#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe
# ^^^ this must be the first line of the script! ^^^
# start code

use strict;
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;

# print header and start the markup output

print $q->header( "text/html" ),$q->start_html( "hello from perl cgi!" );
print $q->h2("hello dave...");
print $q->end_html;
# end code

[Kyderoy]

Still getting a blank screen

I will send you the url in a PM

[KevinADC]

>>Here is the url to my test script

Most servers are setup to run scripts from a folder named cgi-bin but some servers allow you to run scripts from other folders or all folders. It appears your server is not setup to run scripts, or you need to put them in the cgi-bin folder if there is one.

[Kyderoy]

Hmmm.. I don't see a Cgi-Bin folder so what would be my next step?