in reply to CGI on Mac OS 10.11

You need to give us a little more info, to be able to help.
Show us the response to: 
ls -l /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/

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and 
sudo apache2ctl restart

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Also - did you paste in EXACTLY the code recommended at http://editrocket.com/articles/perl_apache_mac.html ?

Can you also show the output of: 

perl /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/test.pl

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Apache also keeps a log of requests made .. you should be able to locate
/var/log/apache/access.log and error.log.

Check the content of those files. (The location may be slightly different on a mac).

Apache configuration files located under /etc need to point to the CGI directory.

        "I can cast out either one of your demons, but not both of them." -- the XORcist

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Re^2: CGI on Mac OS 10.11
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 03, 2016 at 11:38 UTC

    Yep, copied the code straight from the webpage. Tried stopping and starting Apache several times. Here's some terminal output. 

    Megan:~ Chuma$ ls -l /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/
total 8
-rw-r--r--  1 root    wheel  1074 Dec 17  2012 printenv.vbs
-rw-r--r--  1 root    wheel  1133 Dec 17  2012 printenv.wsf
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Chuma  staff   157 Feb  3 02:52 test.pl

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    Megan:~ Chuma$ perl /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/test.pl
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<html><body>Test Page</body></html>Megan:~ Chuma$

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    kcott: I tried those changes, but now it doesn't work at all - browser says it can't find "localhost".

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