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T. ValentineDatabase-Driven Web Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9792-6_7

7. Installing and Using the Perl Server

Thomas Valentine1  
(1)
Selkirk, MB, Canada
 

This chapter is brief, as there is only so much you need to know to install and use a Perl server. For the most part, most operations are simple and intuitively obvious.

Where’s Perl?

As mentioned in a previous chapter, the first line of any Perl script is called the shebang. It is the location on the hard drive of the Perl executables. On Linux operating systems, it’s usually #!/usr/bin/perl.

On the Windows operating system, the location of Perl is a little convoluted and not very intuitive. ...

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