WAMP & Perl - Windows Apache, MySQL, PHP with CGI scripts written in Perl

I need Perl to run Blosxom, an open source and free CGI script to create blogs.
So I installed WAMP5 1.6.4a and ActivePerl 5.8.8.817 with MSI installer.
I already have my site on my disk, so I told my site directory to WAMP during the setup procedure and then I pointed my browser to http://localhost/index.cgi but it displayed the cgi instead of executing it.
This is what I did to make it work:

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• check if CGI module is loaded (click on WAMP icon in the systray, Apache modules and see if "cgi_module" is checked); if it's not, check it
• add ExeCGI to the Options line of <Directory "dir_of_my_site"> section in httpd.conf. I have this:

  <Directory "G:/mySite/www">
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
      ... something else ...
  </Directory>
  

• check if this line

  AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
  

  is uncommented
• restart Apache service (click WAMP icon, then Apache and Restart service)
• put in the first line of the cgi script the exact path where perl.exe is located. I installed ActivePerl in C:\Perl and perl.exe is in C:\Perl\bin:

  #!/Perl/bin/perl.exe
  

Now if I go to http://localhost/index.cgi I get my blog :-)

Posted by: Z24 | Sun, Sep 10 2006 | Category: /configurations/windows | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: apache, bloxsom, configuration

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