Lanny Marcus wrote: I began with Assembly Language, Machine Language and Fortran.
This sounds like me (except for the Fortran bit). I even think that COBOL is new fangled stuff. This "senior citizen" doesn't mind being called a newbie.
I have made some progress but am still frustrated.
I took the suggestions made here. I put the CGI stuff in var/www/cgi-bin/. I double checked my permissions and http.conf file but ....
I can run CGI routines mostly OK but I cannot set a cookie. I am using one of the simple set cookie routines from the net. It does everything but actually write the cookie. Other sites are storing cookies so I know the browsers (IE and FF) accept them. I can run routines that print all the ENV variables OK. I can use the random number function to set the cookie value OK. Just no cookie.
The only error in the error log file comes from mod_mime_magic and seems to be there even for routines that just read cookies.
I have other things not working such as installing the commerce cgi shopping cart using the automatic install program they provide. I get the first page OK but when I click on continue it just refreshes the page. It should POST a form with a name that is tested for with an IF. The new name should cause a jump to a subroutine that loads a new page. The name is blank so the IF falls through and reloads the same page. The browser knows that form data has been sent because a page refresh warns me that the form data is stale and must be resent.
Where do I go next?