Devel::ptkdb came in very handy for some home CGI development. Just by amending the shebang line:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -d:ptkdb
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I was able to debug a script. I guess it would work for SSI as well.

<nonperl>The configuration is just 1 standalone windows PC (win98). I was using the Xitami webserver and accessing from a browser using http://localhost/cgi-bin/myscript.pl. I got bitten by timeouts, till I found where they had hidden the CGI timeout parameter in the admin menus.</nonperl>

I recommend this to newbies with script problems with code downloaded. This might reduce the amount of CGI queries we are getting on SOPW.