converting CGI/Perl site to PHP

lordmerlin · #1 (**permalink**) 07-31-03, 10:27 AM

Hi

I have a big site which was written in CGI / Perl, with file extentions .cgi and .pl.

Is there any way of converting it to php files?

tia

Damian · #2 (**permalink**) 07-31-03, 05:16 PM

nope...you need to rewrite it.

lordmerlin · #3 (**permalink**) 08-01-03, 08:47 AM

ok, I have a server with a cgi-bin folder, which they claim can run cgi and perl scripts. If I want to leave the files as is, how would I then use them? On the previous server the files were simply located in /home/httd/html/. But I think they configured it to pickup index.cgi

Any ideas?

Damian · #4 (**permalink**) 08-01-03, 08:07 PM

yep...you need to configure your server as it was before. create the DIRS as before and tell them that those DIRS need to be able to run CGI scripts. It's a two minute job. If they don't carry out a job so small, make sure you find another host as they're most certainly lazy and support is crap !

Damian

lordmerlin · #5 (**permalink**) 08-02-03, 07:10 AM

Well, no I moved to anoher Host, cause they give me much much better options, but this one site is in CGI. How would I be able to test anything that is written in CGI?

Damian · #6 (**permalink**) 08-02-03, 01:13 PM

you got me there... don't actually know 1 line of cgi...i'm a php coder ..sorry

Skeleton Man · #7 (**permalink**) 08-03-03, 06:11 AM

Quote:

Well, no I moved to anoher Host, cause they give me much much better options, but this one site is in CGI. How would I be able to test anything that is written in CGI?

Basically, you point ur browser at the script, e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/script.cgi

If it displays some content, the script works, if it comes up with "500 Internal Server Error" the permissions are wrong, or the script has problems.... checking the server error log will sometimes reveal more information..

Converting between Perl and PHP isn't terribly difficult if you have a working knowledge of both... Perl is more complex to learn and work with in some ways though...

If you need any more help, just shout...

lordmerlin · #8 (**permalink**) 08-03-03, 07:01 AM

well, I changed the permissions to 751, but this is via an FTP application, as I don't have a shell account on that server. Yet it still comes up with a 500 Internal Server Error, and I haveto wait until Monday for the Support people to check the log files. In the header I have #!/usr/bin/perl, this is right, cause that's where perl resides on a FreeBSD box.

My knowledge on PHP is still quiet limited, but on the Perl / CGI side I know nothing. How difficult is it to convert the site to PHP?