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How to convert .ipl to .cgi ?

rohitspathak123

Hi ,

How do we have a .cgi file for a .ipl file ?

or could anyone tell me the difference between .ipl and .cgi files ?

Regards
Rohit

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kaalraa

How do we have a .cgi file for a .ipl file ?

What do mean by that?? ... Do you want to call a CGI file from an ipl file or elaborate your requirement.

or could anyone tell me the difference between .ipl and .cgi files ?

I think you desperately need a training on CGI/Perl or atleast start with your own reading "Master CGI with Perl".

For basic information - IPL file is nothing more than an perl file which can be executed using built-in perl compiler shipped along with TS. It can also be executed using any other perl compiler. As per the CGI file is concerened it is the user interactive version of the Perl file with extension as .cgi.

Happy Reading & Learning!! :-)

Adam Stoller

Hi ,

How do we have a .cgi file for a .ipl file ?

or could anyone tell me the difference between .ipl and .cgi files ?

Regards
Rohit

What OS? What version of TS?

If you have the correct path to iwperl in the #! line (and the script is marked as executable on Unix) and the script is located in iwhome/httpd/iw-bin/ you can use either extension on your CGI scripts.

What makes a CGI script a CGI script is the code within - not the extension on the file.

rohitspathak123

Hi fish ,

Thanks for ur reply !

Using TS 6.5 SP1 win 2003

I am new to perl . I browsed through the httpd/iw-bin dir . There I saw that for every .ipl there was a file with .cgi extension .

for e.g, there was a file called iw_cgi_wrapper.cgi & iw_cgi_wrapper.ipl .

If we open .ipl we can see the code , But if we try to open .cgi ( present in iw-bin ) in notepad , we can see only garbage value .

So just wanted to know how there corresponding .cgi files were created for the .ipl files .

Also I have heared that if we have .cgi for an .ipl or .pl then we need not to worry about the CBANG operator ( #! ) that we used at first line of perl code .

Could u pls let me know how can i make my .ipl files such that they can run on any system which has perl . ( we hardcode the perl executable path at first line ) . So if we have to run the code on another system , we need to change the first line of perl code ie., the path of perl exe on first line )

Regards
Rohit pathak

Adam Stoller

Hi fish ,

Thanks for ur reply !

Using TS 6.5 SP1 win 2003

I am new to perl . I browsed through the httpd/iw-bin dir . There I saw that for every .ipl there was a file with .cgi extension .

for e.g, there was a file called iw_cgi_wrapper.cgi & iw_cgi_wrapper.ipl .

If we open .ipl we can see the code , But if we try to open .cgi ( present in iw-bin ) in notepad , we can see only garbage value .

So just wanted to know how there corresponding .cgi files were created for the .ipl files .

Also I have heared that if we have .cgi for an .ipl or .pl then we need not to worry about the CBANG operator ( #! ) that we used at first line of perl code .

Could u pls let me know how can i make my .ipl files such that they can run on any system which has perl . ( we hardcode the perl executable path at first line ) . So if we have to run the code on another system , we need to change the first line of perl code ie., the path of perl exe on first line )

Regards
Rohit pathak

Historically (pre 5.5.2) the customer web server that ran on the TS server was responsible for rendering the UI and IIS was the predominant web server used on Windows for TS. IIS didn't understand .ipl files and didn't always behave correctly if you named your perl script with a .cgi extension - so Interwoven supplied a number of binary wrappers (most notably show_env.cgi) for their CGI perl scripts and the general process was to create a myscript.ipl and then copy show_env.cgi to myscript.cgi.

Since 5.5.2, Interwoven added iwwebd (Apache) to manage the UI for TS and the customer web server was used only for rendering pages for preview. iwwebd accepts .ipl files for CGIs - but doesn't always behave correctly if the #! line is not explicitly correct.

I don't understand your last question - what "other system" would you be running these CGI scripts on? Or are you talking about CGI scripts that you want to run on your web site (as opposed to things like custom menu items and/or cgitask scripts that only make sense when run in the context of TS)?

Sailesh

ipl files are for running background process and cgi files are used where you have to display back information to user or need any interaction.

could you be more specific what your requirement is?

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rohitspathak123

Hi Sailesh ,

Thanks for ur reply !

I think fish reply was the one that i wanted .

I problem is solved .
Thanks everyone .

Regards
Rohit