CGI-BIN and Perl scripts not working on my domain ?

There are lot of reasons for not working of cgi and perl scripts.

You can do small test on your cgi-bin.Please see below steps. 

1) Create test.pl file in notepad or any text editor with following code

 


#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "Cgi-bin and perl test ";

2) upload script to cgi-bin folder in ASCII mode

3) Set test.pl permissions to 755

4) Type http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/test.pl  to test script.

If you can see message "Cgi-bin and perl test" then your cgi-bin and perl scripts are working fine on your domain.

You need to check your scripts, permissions and upload mode. All these are very important to run successful scripts.

If you are still getting errors open helpdesk ticket with specific problem along with your logins to troubleshoot.

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