in reply to perl cgi-bin folder missing

I'm very surprised that you are missing an httpd.conf and a cgi-bin directory as these should be created by a standard Apache install on Windows. Did you build Apache yourself, or did you get hold of a binary such as WampServer? What version of Apache is it?

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