RE: Has ANYONE gotten Perl CGI to work on the AS/400?

Well, I was able to restore the libraries and create the symlink, and even 
run some test scripts from the Qshell, believe it or not. My scripts ran 
fine, with variable interpoloation etc. My problems are arising when I try 
to get a Perl script to execute using CGI... I keep getting either a 500 or 
a 404 server error message.

Oh, you have to be running QSHELL to use that command BTW, I don't remember 
if they said to in the docs or not. Try going to the QSH prompt before 
typing it in. The QShell is I think the OS/400's emulated Unix command line, 
I ws pretty impressed when I first saw it.

I tried to specify what MIME types are used, like application/x-perl or 
application/cgi in the server startup configuration, but that doesn't seem 
to help either.

Anyway, I was messing around and I stumbled across a guide to setting up 
Net.Data from IBM's site. It was sort of strange but I thought what the hey. 
Gave up after a while, (this was last night), but then today I tried it 
again and voila.

So anyway, I might use Net.Data, was it you who was saying it was sort of 
slow? I hope it's not too bad...

Anyway, I really appreciate all the feedback I've gotten from you and some 
of the other people on the lists... Sorry I was a bit abrasive, but after 
posting my help messages and getting no responses I was sort of frustrated 
and took it out unfairly on the RPGenX board. You guys actually do a great 
job and I can sense the rumblings of a pretty cool movement happening...

Anyway, sorry for being so grumpy, I hope I haven't ruined anybody's day...

-Mark
http://www.dragonflydynamix.com


>From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
>Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>To: "'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
>Subject: RE: Has ANYONE gotten Perl CGI to work on the AS/400?
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:23:52 -0500
>
>I decided to give it a try..
>
>I got stuck here:
>
>ln -s /qsys.lib/perldist.lib/perl.pgm /usr/bin/perl
>
>This is right after you restore the PERLPGM library.  It didn't work.  I
>think the docs are missing some important steps.
>
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Beihoffer" <markbeihoffer@hotmail.com>
> > To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 2:46 PM
> > Subject: Has ANYONE gotten Perl CGI to work on the AS/400?
> >
> >
> > > I'm starting to wonder if it's possible... heh.
> > >
> > > I swear, I've read about 5 guides on how to do it, but
> > after all that
> > > research I have yet to find anyone who claims to have a
> > working Perl CGI
> > > environment! Go figure.
> > >
> > > Mark Beihoffer
> > > a.k.a dragonfly_blue
> > > http://www.dragonflydynamix.com
> > >
> > >
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