Running PERL Scripts in XAMPP 1.8.3

[lerxst]

I installed and have been using XAMPP 1.8.3 on Windows 8 since November 2014 and it has worked wonderfully! I'm using Apache, PHP and MySQL. Now, I want to use PERL. So I tried running the scripts that come with the XAMPP installation: cgi.cgi, perltest.cgi, and printenv.pl. All three give me the same error:

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The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.

Error message:
couldn't create child process: 720002: printenv.pl
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In the Apache error log, I get:

[Sun Nov 01 08:33:34.064744 2015] [cgi:error] [pid 7584:tid 1724] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : [client ::1:51272] couldn't create child process: 720002: printenv.pl
[Sun Nov 01 08:33:34.064744 2015] [cgi:error] [pid 7584:tid 1724] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : [client ::1:51272] AH01223: couldn't spawn child process: C:/xampp/cgi-bin/printenv.pl

When I look at the script files, all of them start with:

#!"C:\xampp\perl\bin\perl.exe"

But one glaring problem I have is the perl directory does not exist in my xampp folder. I would have expected it to be there from the installation. So, what did I miss??

Thanks!

TT

[Altrea]

Did you install the full version or the lite/portable version of XAMPP?

[lerxst]

Good question; how can I find out? TT

[lerxst]

Ok...however it happened, the PERL directory is not there. So I downloaded 1.8.3-5, pulled the PERL directory from it and placed it in my XAMPP directory. Perl seems to be working fine now.

Strangeness. And I thought Halloween was over today!

Thanks for letting me bounce this off the forum!

TT