Couldn't spawn child process

hermanG has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,

I am a novice, newbie so bare with me.

I wrote a perl script, which runs with the command prompt, it produces the print output.
$> perl -w myFirstPL.pl works okay.

However when I use it when called from a browser I get an error in the error log. The error is the following:
No such file or directory: couldn't spawn child process: c:/apache/cgi-bin/myFirstPL.pl

Can anyone point me in the direction on where the error is?

Regards,

Herman

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Re: Couldn't spawn child process by idsfa (Vicar) on Oct 18, 2003 at 17:05 UTC
Wild guess, you don't have a shebang line at the top of your perl script. Try this resource for a walkthrough in getting this working. A shebang line: `#!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe` [download] (And for anyone curious, yes, you do need a shebang for apache on windows, unless you configure Handlers to use the extension.) Remember, when you stare long into the abyss, you could have been home eating ice cream.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Couldn't spawn child process by Anonymous Monk on Oct 19, 2003 at 06:17 UTC
Try couldn't spawn child process	[reply]