Eraemia

When I open the following file:
http://fishy.nu/irssi/beep_beep.pl

I receive a 500 Internal Server Error. It seems like the server is trying to read it as cgi.

I can rename the file so that it doesn't end in .pl, but is there a way to view it without changing the file extension?

For example, I'd like to be able to open it as such:
http://irssi.org/scripts/scripts/beep_beep.pl

Thanks,
Eraemia

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Thomas

There's likely a handler in the .htaccess for irssi.org that forces .pl extensions to be opened as text, is there any way you can check for this handler and copy it over to the fishy.nu server? I would've checked for you, but the sites are not on our network :-(

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Eraemia

Thanks for your reply.

I googled for how to perhaps edit the .htaccess file to force .pl files to be read as text files. I found this useful website:

Stupid htaccess Tricks • Perishable Press
(Search for "Instruct server to display source code for dynamic file types")

which suggests to add the following code to .htaccess:
I still cannot view my .pl files after adding that line of code into .htaccess, so I have two questions:
1. How do I implement the code from the website?
2. How do I limit .htaccess to just one subfolder instead of the entire root?

Thanks,
Eraemia

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cowboy

In the folder that contains the .pl files you want displayed as text, make a .htaccess file containing the following and upload to that directory:
Either line should work by itself, but, overkill is OK.

Do not add or alter the .htaccess file in the public_html directory, unless, you want site-wide changes.

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Eraemia

Thanks, that worked perfectly!

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Thomas

*Adding to my list of useful htaccess code* :-)

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