Perl newbie asking dumb question - please come in and laugh at me :P

[plucky duck]

How does one go about installing Perl for Windows 2000? I've downloaded the file, did the extraction. Now what?

Did it long time ago, forgot how to do it

[sixf00t4]

is this for a webserver? or just for scripting? once you install after extraction, you are done, you can either add your install directory to the search folders, or you just have to be in that directory to access perl.exe and ppm

[Idigguns]

The only dumn question is an unasked question!

[plucky duck]

Yes, this is for a webserver. The default extraction is to c:\perl and my root website folder is c:\temp (yes, what a dumb name for a folder, didn't know what I was thinking, will have to change soon!)

OK, so I did the extraction part, but how do I install and have IIS recognize that it's there?

[izzzy12k]

I'f i'm not mistaking... if it installed and is now running... you should be able to open a cmd window and type:

perl -v

and you should get info on your perl version and packages installed.

(sytax may be off... it's been a while since i've configured my server... if it works - I aint messing with it )

-Izzy