Hi, God bless you.

To appropriately help you, we need to know what your webserver is and the running OS. However this may be a little off topic. Also you may want to look at your webserver documentation as it may have the information you are looking for in its log files.

I, for example, use the Apache web server, and to call a cgi script from a SSI page, I could use:

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/script.pl" -->
[download]

or,

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/script.pl" -->
[download]

Depending if I am writing for the intranet (use first form, I control the webserver), or for the internet (second form, required by host).

HTH
rruiz