Open Source Web Development with LAMP: Using Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl, and PHP

10.4. A Quick Example

Let’s start with a quick example to display “hello, world!” with Embperl (what else?). Create the file /var/www/html/embperl/index.html with the following contents (remember to chmod a+r index.html ^[3]):

^[3] In general, if you have any problems, check your permissions. Don’t make us say this again.

[-
    $msg = ´hello, world!´; 
-] 

<html> 
<head> 
<title>hello, world with Embperl</title> 
</head> 
<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> 
[+ $msg +] 
</body> 
</html> 

To see the result of this page, load one of the following into your browser: http://localhost/embperl/ or www.opensourcewebbook.com/embperl/. You should see something like Figure 10.1.

Figure 10.1. hello, world! with Embperl

The first part of index.html is an Embperl command denoted ...