Howdy! First of all, have a read at on the Apache documentation here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/cgi.html The default installation should have a cgi-bin located _somewhere_ that makes sense. Double check that. If all else fails you can force it (if Apache is loading the mod_cgi.so module, which I'd reckon it is) with an htaccess directive, though that is not very wise. Under your document root make a cgi-bin folder, then create a file called .htaccess and drop this in: 
Options +ExecCGI
SetHandler cgi-script

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This tells Apache that anything in this directory is a cgi-script. Alternatively you can specify only certain files to run as cgi (which is usually better) as such: 
SetHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

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and so on...HTH. --dom

In reply to Re: perl cgi-bin folder missing by domje
in thread perl cgi-bin folder missing by ansh batra

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