The Perl Short Questions Megathread: executable line noise

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > The Perl Short Questions Megathread: executable line noise

InvSqrt: Nov 30, 2007

I want to start using my Perl knowledge for web development.

What's the best way to do this using Apache?
And what special stuff do I need to do in Perl to get this to work? I remember trying this once before and couldn't even get output to work.

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InvSqrt: Nov 30, 2007

Thanks guys.
For the record, here's what I did to get it working:

1. apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2
2. Found some example config and added it

code:

<Files ~ "\.pl$">
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::PerlRun
  Options +ExecCGI
  PerlSendHeader On
</Files>

3. Created an index.pl containing this:

code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<h1>Hello World!\n";

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