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**South** · 11-14-2003, 04:10 PM

I posted this in hosting as well. Mods feel free to dump it from the incorrct location.

I have a hosting/reseller account with Matrix. Here's my problem.

I cannot get the server to work perl scripts with a .pl extension. If I go through and change every .pl to a .cgi the script starts working. Not very practical with larger scripts since this makes all referring language within the script need to be changed as well.

I spoke with support there and they told me it was a mime issue. Could someone please explain the process to me in "dummy" language as to exactly how to correct this. I use Linux with CPanel.

Thanks

**LazyJim** · 11-14-2003, 05:08 PM

You server should arrange for .pl files to be processed before leaving, ask them to add .pl to the file types prcessed by the CGI processor ans it should work I think.

MIME types are set in the HTTP header which is generated by the server and included in each HTTP message. You can tell the server what value's to use by setting them in you HTML <head> section using <meta> tag, 'mime-type' or something goes in the name property of that tag, and the value is set to erm, "text/cgi" or just "cgi" or something, and maybe that fools the server into sending it through the CGI processor.

Maybe.