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How To Run Perl Program In Windows

This article is from our multi-part serial "How to install prerequisites needed for running a self-hosted edition of MIDAS from a Windows server".

It applies to self-hosted installations of MIDAS booking software on Windows-based servers just, and outlines how to install Strawberry Perl on Windows. Other Windows distributions of Perl (such equally ActivePerl) are as well available.

Delight notation that this article is provided "as is" and is correct at time of writing. For further assistance installing/configuring Perl, please refer to the vendor'south own documentation/support.

This commodity assumes that you lot've already successfully completed our previous "How to install & configure Apache on a Windows server" guide.

Contents:

  • Footstep 1 - Download Strawberry Perl for Windows
  • Step 2 - Install Strawberry Perl
  • Stride 3 - Test
  • Stride 4 - Install Additional Modules

Step 1 - Download Strawberry Perl for Windows

Strawberry Perl may be freely downloaded from strawberryperl.com. Both 32-fleck and 64-bit versions are available. Please select the relevant version for your server:
Download Strawberry Perl for Windows

Step two - Install Strawberry Perl

Run the Strawberry Perl Installer and read & accept the License Agreement. Y'all'll then be prompted for a location to install Strawberry Perl to (the default is C:\Strawberry):
Choose where to install Strawberry Perl to

Click "Adjacent", and the installer will inform you that it'south set up to install. Click "Install":

Ready to install Strawberry Perl

The installer volition then install Strawberry Perl...

Installing Strawberry Perl

...and will inform you once installation is complete:

Strawberry Perl Installed

Step iii - Test

Once the Strawberry Perl installer has consummate, let's test Perl to ensure that it's working correctly.
Open up a standard text editor and add the following two lines:

#!C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe
impress "content-type:text/html\n\nHello World!";

Save this file as "exam.pl" to C:\Apache24\htdocs (or D:\Apache\htdocs, etc depending upon where you installed Apache)

Adjacent, in your spider web browser, navigate to http://127.0.0.1/exam.pl, and you lot should then run into the words "Hello World!" in your browser:

Perl Hello World Test Script

...which indicates that Perl has been correctly installed!

If however, you see the entire contents of your test.pl file, and so Apache didn't know how to handle your .pl file, and so instead of "executing" it, displayed its contents as apparently text instead. In which case, please bank check Step 3B of our "How to install & configure Apache on a Windows server" guide.

If all y'all run across if a server fault when access examination.pl in your browser, it's probable that either you've not correctly configured Apache to handle .pl files and/or to execute cgi scripts (delight refer back to our "How to install & configure Apache on a Windows server" guide), or there's a typo in your test.pl file


Pace 4 - Install Additional Modules

Once y'all have your test.pl script displaying "Hello World!" in your browser, it's now fourth dimension to download and run our "Server Readiness" MIDAS tool. This utility volition analyze your current server setup and ensure that you have all the required Perl modules required for running MIDAS, and may be freely obtained via the MIDAS Server Requirements page.

Salvage/upload the utility to the same server location as your previous "test.pl" script, and and so access it via your browser in the same way.

Let the Server Readiness tool run, and brand note of any missing required Perl modules:

MIDAS Server Readiness Tool

To install any additional modules with Strawberry Perl, delight refer to our "How to install Perl modules via Strawberry Perl" KB article.

Re-run the MIDAS Server Readiness tool again in your browser to check that the previously missing modules have now been installed.


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Source: https://mid.as/kb/00199/install-configure-strawberry-perl-on-windows

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