Displaying text file in browser - perl

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Don't know why this didn't get posted before but...

I am having issues displaying a log file in the browser using perl and I can't get it to display at all, All i get is WHITE (blank page). I have proper permissions in my cgi-bin directory and everywhere else. So I know that's NOT the issue. Also when I try to manually run the script from console , it spits out the contents of the file just fine.

Here is snippet of my code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "content-type: text/html \n\n";

open (FH , "access.log") || die "Blah $!";

while (<FH>) {
        print $_ ;
}
close (FH);

Here is the contents of the log file..its just access.log file.

1219582729.698    133 24.130.155.89 TCP_MISS/200 1496 POST http://ocsp.thawte.com/ gsingh DIRECT/199.7.54.72 application/ocsp-resp
onse
1219582730.138     53 24.130.155.89 TCP_MISS/200 1496 POST http://ocsp.thawte.com/ gsingh DIRECT/199.7.54.72 application/ocsp-resp
onse
1219582730.512     81 24.130.155.89 TCP_MISS/200 1891 POST http://ocsp.thawte.com/ gsingh DIRECT/199.7.54.72 application/ocsp-resp
onse
1219582791.993  59571 24.130.155.89 TCP_MISS/200 1712 CONNECT mail.google.com:443 gsingh DIRECT/74.125.19.19 -
1219582793.002  60565 24.130.155.89 TCP_MISS/200 1704 CONNECT www.google.com:443 gsingh DIRECT/74.125.19.103 -
1219582793.043  60608 24.130.155.89 TCP_MISS/200 4695 CONNECT mail.google.com:443 gsingh DIRECT/74.125.19.17 -
1219582793.135  60725 24.130.155.89 TCP_MISS/200 2976 CONNECT mail.google.com:443 gsingh DIRECT/74.125.19.17 -
1219582793.180  63199 24.130.155.89 TCP_MISS/200 17672 CONNECT mail.google.com:443 gsingh DIRECT/74.125.19.18 -
1219582793.217  60788 24.130.155.89 TCP_MISS/200 4252 CONNECT mail.google.com:443 gsingh DIRECT/74.125.19.83 -
1219582793.228  60399 24.130.155.89 TCP_MISS/200 1899 CONNECT mail.google.com:443 gsingh DIRECT/74.125.19.19 -
1219582793.333  60480 24.130.155.89 TCP_MISS/200 1762 CONNECT mail.google.com:443 gsingh DIRECT/74.125.19.83 -

Any help is highly appreciated :slight_smile:

Thanks

2

You are not writing a valid HTML page. At a minimum you need the following layout

<html>
   <head></head>
   <body>
    ----------- your log file data here ........ 
   </body>
</html>
3

Neither is that a valid HTML page. The HTML, HEAD and BODY tags, both opening and closing, are optional.

What is required is a doctype, a title, and a block element. This is a valid HTML page:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
  <title></title>
  <p>

The OP should check the logs to see whether any errors were generated.

Also, check the permissions on the script (remove group write permission).

4

Figured out my answer... finally

so in the console it was working fine but not in web browser..hmm
It was permission issue :frowning:

The permission issue was on the log file ...dohh :frowning: I should've checked the perms on the file too ..my bad.

Thx group.