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James
James

Reputation: 73

Perl CGI script with css

I am using a external css for my CGI web form but I can't get the .css to take to the page. Is there a certain way a external css needs to be called. I tried:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../styles/archiveRequest.css" media="screen" />

which has not been working. I have tried moving the css in the same folder as the .cgi with still no results.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4247

Answers (3)

terratwig
terratwig

Reputation: 1

I know this was asked quite a while ago, but I had the same problem today and spent hours looking for an answer. This is what worked for me:

If my cgi script is /var/cgi-bin/test.cgi, putting my style.css file in the same directory did not work. Apparently this makes it get treated like a script, which it isn't. I moved my style file to /var/www/styles/style.css and made it non-executable (but readable).

In a browser, I was able to see it at localhost/styles/style.css, so in my cgi script I referenced it as:

my $stylesheet = "/styles/style.css"; start_html(-style=>{'src'=>$stylesheet}), ....

Hope this is useful to someone else.

(The answer that helped me was found here: http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=113842)

Upvotes: 0

w.k
w.k

Reputation: 8376

If you were "able to load the /styles/archiveRequest.css", then use "/styles/archiveRequest.css" as href too.

Upvotes: 0

CanSpice
CanSpice

Reputation: 35788

The href attribute needs to be in relation to the page you're viewing in your browser. For example, if your URL is http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/mypage.cgi then, with your above code, your CSS file needs to be viewable in a browser at http://www.example.com/styles/archiveRequest.css. Try loading it up directly in your browser using the direct URL. Also take a look at your server logs, and you'll probably find 404 errors showing where the file is trying to be loaded from.

Upvotes: 3

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