#!c:/perl/bin/perl
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Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)

Or you might include Perl's directory in your PATH and just say

#!perl
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The first line of your script merely points to what is going to drive your script. On windows boxes, I understand that this line is not needed. If you can find your program through your path, that's all you need.

That said, though, you can and should include the line so that you can enable switches with it, '-w', for example, or '-Tw', etc. If you don't 'use warnings;' in your script, then you should indeed use the warn switch '-w' on your shebang line.

So your error? Something else. Start a new question with your error and include your script, or at least the part of your script that you think might cause the error.

As much as I don't like referring people away, you might like to check this great troubleshoot of 500 errors:

http://www.users.f2s.com/faq/error500.php3

Dave

On windows boxes, I understand that this line is not needed.

It is not needed if you run script as usual program on windows. In this case file associations come to play. However if you run script as CGI using Apache normally Apache emulates UNIX behaviour. Apache ignores file associations and reads shebang line to find script interpretator. BTW if I recall correctly Win32 Apache has an option which is off by default. That option forces Apache to use file associations and ignore shebang line.

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