After a bit of poking around ( and setting up an account I don't really need... ) I think I may have a road for you to travel to find your answers.

First off, have you tried the help files at tripod? They seem to have quite a bit of information there.

Next, did you upload all the CGI modules they say are needed to run scripts?

Short of that, I can't offer any more help, and as fuzzyping said, without showing the monestary what you've written as far as a perl script it's tough to help.

I still stand by my original suggestion that you're not calling it correctly. As Tripod doesn't seem to worry about .cgi or .pl or permissions ( which seems odd ) my suspicion is that you're trying to call one of their files and not your own.

Good luck!

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