Why don't my CGI scripts work?

The largest problem by far is that a Perl file is not uploaded as an ASCII text file but rather as a binary file which prevents the correct conversion of the Line Feeds. Be sure to upload your scripts as ASCII text!

Other Common problems:

1) If the scripts are not world executable, type chmod o+x *.cgi in the directory your scripts are in.

2) If scripts are named .pl, Rename them .cgi

3) If the script writes to a file that isn't world writeable or doesn't exist:

• create the file (e.g. touch data.txt)
• set permissions (e.g. chmod o+w data.txt)

4) It may be a problem when you adjusted a common script to your needs you forgot to add a semicolon after every line or added characters like ", ', . etc. Those chars all need an escape (\) char before them.

I did all the above and my scripts still don't work!

You'll need to telnet in and debug them.

From the Telnet prompt, type perl -w yourscript.cgi and see what you get!