Question

I’m unable to execute the HTML::Template function in the CGI.

I’m following a simple tutorial that I found here: http://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::Template

I created a new file on my server in the home path as test.tmpl.

I created a new file named frt.cgi … (is that the issue here? should it be a different file extention??)

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use HTML::Template;

# open the html template
my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => '/test.html');

# fill in some parameters
$template->param(HOME => $ENV{HOME});
$template->param(PATH => $ENV{PATH});

# send the obligatory Content-Type and print the template output
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n", $template->output;

I’ve modified the 1st line to reflect my host provided program path for perl. I don’t know what the -w does I just know I’ve tried this with and without it. Also I’ve tried changing the code a bit like this:

use warnings;
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use HTML::Template;

I’ve searched…
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=HTML%3A%3ATEMPLATE+&submit=search
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=HTML%3A%3ATEMPLATE
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=HTML%3A%3ATEMPLATE+PERL&submit=search

Yet I still do not see the answer.
I even searched google for .TMPL Encoding because I thought there may be some special type needed. Please help.

Answer 1

If you look in your server logs, you’ll probably see an error message along the lines of:

HTML::Template->new() : Cannot open included file /test.html : file not found.

You need to provide the path on the file system, not a URI relative to the generated document.