Newbie to ".pl" files needs advice about "$cgiurl".

[mercfrog]

Hi!

I'm trying to set up a Guestbook script for my site.
(I have my own "virtual server")

I am using a script found at: http://www.scriptarchive.com/guestbook.html

It says this: (under "# Set Variables"
$cgiurl - The url portion of the address to the guestbook.pl file

As an example it shows:
$cgiurl = "http://your.host.com/cgi-bin/guestbook.pl";


How do I do this?

The CGI-BIN is under: /home/httpd/cgi-bin
... as seen per FTP, but how does one figure out the "URL"?

I've tried every combination I can think of but keep getting this:
The requested URL /cgi-bin/guestbook.pl was not found on this server.

Also, my GGI-BIN is not "in" my website folder (ie:your.host.com/cgi-bin/)

Rather, 2 levels above it:
/home/httpd/cgi-bin <- this is the CGI-BIN address, FTP wise.
/home/httpd/docs/zwerchfe <- this is the website address, FTP wise.


Please help !!

MERCFROG

[KevinR]

can you run any cgi scripts in your cgi-bin?

[mercfrog]

Hi KevinR!

Thanks for replying!

My mistake was on the "guestbook" page itself :-(

So everythings "OK" now.

Sorry- but I'm still learning here.

Thanks very much for the rely though!!!

MF