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I'm using Apache server on Fedora-20. I'm trying to run a perl-cgi program on my local server, but it's not working, I have attached my html and perl code.

html program:

<html>
<head><title>Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="/cgi-bin/fam.cgi" method="post">
<input type="text" name="username">
<input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

This ran properly and outputs:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "hello world\n";

But when I pass a parameter, it doesn't work.

#!usr/bin/perl -wT 
use CGI;
my $username = param('username');
print header;
print start_html("Perl page");
print h2("hello $username");
print end_html;

I've already installed the cgi module. Any suggestions?

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I think you have to add:

my $q = CGI->new();
my $username = $q->param('username');
...

So the whole should look like:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;

my $q = CGI->new();
my $username = $q->param('username');

print $q->header();
print $q->start_html("Perl page");
print $q->h2("Hello, $username!\n");
print $q->end_html;

More info you can here.
Also in your file you are missing "/":

#!usr/bin/perl -wT

I think should be:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
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  • Its also is not working... Internal server error. I already change mod by using this command `chmod 755 filename' – Krithi.S Mar 24 '15 at 7:37
  • What is happening if run it from command line? – taliezin Mar 24 '15 at 7:42
  • Before failed complication aborted at line 6 – Krithi.S Mar 24 '15 at 7:47
  • Anything else, syntax error or whatever? – taliezin Mar 24 '15 at 7:57
  • there is no syntax error.. – Krithi.S Mar 24 '15 at 8:09

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