in reply to neophyte question w/win2k

First make sure that that your server works by typing http://127.0.0.1 into your browser. If you get an error page that that means the server isn't running and you have to start it. If your server is running, Run a script like this:
#!perl use CGI; $x = new CGI; print $x->header, $x->start_html; print "Hello, World\n",$x->end_html;

Did that work? your path on Windows should really only have to be #!perl </code>
Update: to answer your question without advocating CGI.pm or assuming that perl is on your path.
#!C:\Perl\bin\perl print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "Hello World"; #end script
will probably work just fine. you need to specifically mention the program in C:\Perl\bin that will be interpreting the program, which is of course called perl.exe. the .exe is not necessary, though.