Server Question

ecchi · 2008-01-24, 03:40 PM

Can anyone who sets up or manages servers help me with this question:

I have a new domain on a new server. When running Perl scripts I cannot get DATE_GMT or DATE_LOCAL to work. Perl requests like: $gmtdate = $ENV{'DATE_GMT'}; and $localdate = $ENV{'DATE_LOCAL'}; return an empty string. When I asked my host about this they said to include the following SSI into my HTML:

Code:

<!--#set var="year" value="$DATE_GMT" -->
<!--#set var="year" value="$DATE_LOCAL" -->

This obviously does the job, but I cannot help assuming that the problem is that something is missing or out of date on the server (old version of Perl, old version of server software, or something). Anyone know exactly what the problem is, as my host is good except in one respect: when they make a mistake they fix it but when I ask what the problem was they either lie to cover it up or just don't reply.

If it helps I have the following server info:
SERVER_SOFTWARE = Apache/2.2.6 (Fedora)
SERVER_PROTOCOL = INCLUDED
GATEWAY_INTERFACE = CGI/1.1

Thanks.

2008-01-24, 03:40 PM	#1
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	Server Question Can anyone who sets up or manages servers help me with this question: I have a new domain on a new server. When running Perl scripts I cannot get DATE_GMT or DATE_LOCAL to work. Perl requests like: $gmtdate = $ENV{'DATE_GMT'}; and $localdate = $ENV{'DATE_LOCAL'}; return an empty string. When I asked my host about this they said to include the following SSI into my HTML: Code: <!--#set var="year" value="$DATE_GMT" --> <!--#set var="year" value="$DATE_LOCAL" --> This obviously does the job, but I cannot help assuming that the problem is that something is missing or out of date on the server (old version of Perl, old version of server software, or something). Anyone know exactly what the problem is, as my host is good except in one respect: when they make a mistake they fix it but when I ask what the problem was they either lie to cover it up or just don't reply. If it helps I have the following server info: SERVER_SOFTWARE = Apache/2.2.6 (Fedora) SERVER_PROTOCOL = INCLUDED GATEWAY_INTERFACE = CGI/1.1 Thanks.