RE: Problem setting up GNATSWEB

[Glenn Henshaw]

  Sounds like your web server is not set up to run perl scripts. There
should be an entry in the httpd.conf file associating the suffix .pl with
the perl binary.

-- 
Glenn Henshaw                         Director
Altera Ottawa Technology Center      
Phone: (613) 591-6702                 Email: address@hidden

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> From:         David Padilla
> Sent:         Wednesday, December 5, 2001 8:53 PM
> To:   address@hidden
> Subject:      Problem setting up GNATSWEB
> 
> Hi -
> 
> I am trying to set up gnats and gnatsweb, and I'm having some problems
> with the latter.
> 
> I've set up and tested Gnats 3.113.  Then I tried to install GnatsWeb
> 2.8.2.  I've followed the instructions in the INSTALL file, and everything
> is fine up to the step where I run the 'make test' of the gnats database.
> (My set up passes the test.)  I then installed gnatsweb.pl and
> gnatsweb-site.pl in a cgi-enabled directory on the server.
> 
> My problem is that the gnatsweb.pl program does not seem to work.  When I
> go to
>   http://{my_web_server}/cgi/gnats/gnatsweb.pl
> I get a box asking whether I want to open the file in its present location
> or save it to disk.  If I attempt to open it, then I briefly see a
> small blank screen which then disappears.
> 
> Are there other steps I need tp perform?
> Should the variable $site_gnats_host = 'localhost' be set to the
> {my_web_server} above?
> 
> Any help at will be appreciated.  I've been working on this for weeks now,
> and I'm at the end of my rope.
> 
> -David Padilla
> Protein Data Bank
> 
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