in reply to Running Perl in cgi bin?

You should never install perl in the cgi-bin directory as it is a security disaster.

DON'T DO THIS. REALLY. EVEN IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY NOT, DON'T.

See This is all such a hassle; why can't I just put perl.exe in my CGI directory and use it in my URL?

See this overview of how to set up perl on IIS from ActiveState for info on how to do it correctly. This covers installation and config and also why you should not install Perl in cgi-bin

cheers

tachyon

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Re: Re: Running Perl in cgi bin?
by seattlejohn (Deacon) on Nov 04, 2002 at 18:56 UTC
    And if you happen to be running Apache rather than IIS, it's worth knowing that Apache respects the shebang lines in your scripts even on Windows, so you can write things like this: 
    #!/my/perl/install/is/here/perl -w
use strict;
# etc.

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