this usually means that the MIME type is not recognised by Apache. you might need to add an additional "AddHandler" directive to the configuration file. Here's the documentation which describes that handler :
AddHandler
hth... :)
Comment on Re: enabling PERL file type in Apache/web
no, I tried that... I even said I tried that in my question
I guess I should have said that I explicitly added another
AddHandler line... no matter, it still doesn't work...
and it's all perls fault :)