Re: iceweasel does not execute perl scripts

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 11/16/2014 06:20 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> I am trying to set up the apache server with mod_perl so that I can
> execute perl scripts in the browser itself.

There once was an attempt to put Perl code into web pages for execution 
by browsers (among others), but JavaScript won that contest:

    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MS/MSERGEANT/PSIntro.html


http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.8/Components/Windows/PerlScript.html


mod_perl is a persistent Perl interpreter running inside Apache, and 
avoids the forking and initialization costs incurred by Perl CGI scripts.


> rajulocal@hogwarts:~/public_html/perl$ cat mod_perl_rules1.pl
> print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
> print "mod_perl rules!\n";
...
> However, if I point the iceweasel brower to
> http://localhost/~rajulocal/perl/mod_perl_rules1.pl , it launches the
> file download dialog

That is not a valid mod_perl program, and Apache requires additional 
configuration to know what URL's are to be passed to mod_perl.  For all 
things mod_perl, please see:

    http://perl.apache.org/


Without seeing your Apache configuration, it may or may not be a valid 
Perl CGI script.  Have you set the execute bit on the file?


Note that PSGI/ Plack is a newer way to run Perl programs inside a web 
server (Apache, nginx, and others):

    http://plackperl.org/


HTH,

David