Hi, I have installed xampp on windows 7, which includes apache. I am using the cgi-bin folder within the C:\xampp folder to host and test my perl cgi scripts. I have installed both strawberry and activestate perl 5.16 on my machine and included the path as part of the environment variable. Still, I have to use the following line, #!"C:\Perl64\bin\perl5.16.2.exe" at the top of each cgi files, to work properly. Otherwise apache throws error saying "Error message: couldn't create child process: 720002: ". Although I am pointing to perl version 5.16, when I print the version from the cgi files, it shows that the version is 5.0. Because of this I am unable to use the line "use Modern::Perl;". Please let me know how to resolve these two issues. Issue 1: Avoid the use of the line #!"C:\Perl64\bin\perl5.16.2.exe" on each cgi page. 2. How to point to perl version 5.16. Thanks

In reply to How to point to the latest verion of perl on cgi files by nadarajan

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