OP here wants a one-off fire-and-forget web server that will present Perl scripts properly within web pages, and personally, I'm curious to find out if anyone else has a solution to this.

Thats not what he says he wants :)

Even apacheet requires configuration ( two paths). Here is another "simpler" version of apacheet no webserver(apache)? no problem! test .cgi with Plack/plackup

To give some credit to the OP, ... I understand the concern here

Both credits and concern? Spoiler!

The only reason to use apache on test/dev machine, is if you plan to deploy to apache (or your other test server is broken ), in which case figuring out how to run it is paramount

The only reason to whine about it when asking for alternatives is if you're hoping someone will hold your hand and fix it

Whining is for puppies