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ok,
I installed XAMPP, configurated my VirualHosts... until now all is working: Apache->PHP->MySQL(Mariadb), also my virtualhosts.
Now i want to run my Perl scripts but I don't know where to put them (Directory) in order to use my DBs from my Perl scripts.
Please give me the some orientation about this. Thanks in advance.

You can place your perl scripts in any by Apache requestable folder you want.

Some examples:
/opt/lampp/cgi-bin/
/opt/lampp/htdocs/projectxy/
/opt/lampp/vhosts/vhost1/

If you want to place them inside your virtual host and the virtual host is not a subdirectory of htdocs, then you need to add the Directory Option ExecCGI by yourself.
For cgi-bin and htdocs this is already given in the default configuration of XAMPPs Apache.

Thank you very much. I'll proceed. My virtual hosts are inside htdocs then all must be running smoothly.

ok, after trying a script of my own i got many errors, then i went to the basics and got an example from internet.
First I got an error:
install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't locate DBD/mysql.pm in @INC...
then i found a tip about adding a use lib with the route to the DBD/mysql and got this error:
install_driver(mysql) failed: Attempt to reload DBD/mysql.pm aborted. Compilation failed in require at (eval 15) line 3. at /opt/lampp/htdocs/dummy2/ejbdcon1.pl line 15.
the script i try to get working is just this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use lib '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30/';
use DBI;
print "Perl MySQL Connect Demo\n";
# MySQL database configuration
my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:bd_nfl";
my $username = "root";
my $password = '';
# connect to MySQL database
my %attr = ( PrintError=>0, RaiseError=>1);
# turn off error reporting via warn()
# turn on error reporting via die()
my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn,$username,$password, \%attr);
print "Connected to the MySQL database.\n";

I don't know now how to go ahead, your tips will be appreciated

XAMPP is now using MariaDb instead of MySQL, so you need to use:
my $dsn = "DBI:MariaDB:...