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[carrotweb]

I want to install Mambo on my virtual hosting account, but I don't have shell access. How do I run a perl file called 'install.pl'?

Thanks.

[microsol]

I don't know mambo but you should be able to chmod the script to 755 and access it through it's url.

[apollo]

... and you will probably need to rename it to .cgi extension.. usually hosts configure apache server to execute only .cgi files as a scripts

[Ahmad]

The problem with these scripts is that they were originally written to run from the command line. They will probably not print the proper headers and might expect you to interact with it through standard input (give you a prompt).

[MaB]

This will be a dangerous script so remove it once your done:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "content-type:text/html\n\n";

print "Executing...<BR>";

$command = `perl /path/to/pl/file/here.pl`;
$command =~ s/\\n/<BR>/g;

print "Output: [$command]";


Try it out