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Hi, hope someone can help with this

I am able to browse web pages I have created just fine using XAMPP until I try to use the Perl CGI module, when I get Server error/Error 500.

An example of a script which will not work -

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
#test.cgi
use strict;
use CGI;

my $query = CGI->new();

print $query->header( "text/html" ),
$query->start_html(-title => "My First CGI Script",
-bgcolor => "#ffffcc" ),
$query->h1( "This is a pretty lame Web page" ),
$query->end_html;

I have placed it in xampp\cgi-bin and am looking for it with localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi... I am obviously just learning the CGI module, any suggestions as to why this is not working would be appreciated : )

Thanks

You have Perl installed?

Yep, have Perl installed

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#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

Your Perl is in the directory"/usr/bin"?

whoops, no

I see where I'm going wrong here, thanks very much for the help