Perl Not being recognised

jellyfish · Post by **jellyfish** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:22 pm

I just installed Perl because I needed it in order to install Darwin Streaming Server but now when I go to install Darwin Streaming Server I get the error pictured. I've tried re-installing perl but didn't have any luck- it seems to install itself ok but the .pl files open with notepad instead.

I'm using Windows 2003 Enterprise edition.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 2:06 pm

I had problems with Perl last night!

I don’t know anything about Perl besides what it shares with PHP, but I can tell you what my problem was. Maybe that will help.

My Perl script started with this:

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#!/usr/bin/perl[code]

That is not the path to my Perl interpreter, so I had to change it to this:
[code]#!C:Program FilesUniform Serverdiskwusrinperl.exe[code]

Your path probably differs. 

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 2:14 pm

Hmm perl issues under windows... *meditates* hmm can't seem to remember but I did have a problem in the past when I wanted to get perl working and my server was windows. I think it had to do with the path like Tak said, but there might of been something else. It might come to me.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:20 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: Hmm perl issues under windows... *meditates* hmm can't seem to remember but I did have a problem in the past when I wanted to get perl working and my server was windows. I think it had to do with the path like Tak said, but there might of been something else. It might come to me.

Maybe you didn’t print the content-type header! That was my second mistake.

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print "Content-type: text/html

";[code] 

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:43 pm

Hmm that might have been it, actually. Perl is actually a nice language to start off with since it lets you understand more what's going on. Php is nice since it does lot of that stuff for you. I regret not learning perl more, but I can always learn it one of these days.

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