Hi I am Very New to Perl. Learning perl online from last 2 to 3 days.

My question is:

How to run perl script as CGI in Ubunut machines I have tried it but didn't got succeed . Please help me.

I have googled it but didn't find many supporting tutorials for it.
Gone through one of the tutorial i have done exactly the same, But didn't worked.

Thank you all for your reponsese.
Here I am going to update my question.

I have kept my file at /var/www/cgi-bin/ and i have made following changes in /etc/apache2/apche2.conf 


Alias /cgi-bin /var/www/cgi-bin/
<Directory /var/www/cgi-bin>
AllowOverride None
AddHandler cgi-script pl cgi
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

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I have restarted Apache. found following error on apache error logs

attempt to invoke directory as script: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ . When I have accessed through Url. And found following error on page
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this server.
Though I have given the 0777 permission for directory "cgi-bin".

http://localhost/cgi-bin

I have kept my file "test.pl" under "cgi-bin" and when I am accessing it through URL. its giving 404 error.

code of test.pl 

###Start###
#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Hello world";

###End###

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please help.
Thanks in Advance..!!!

In reply to To Run perl through CGI by sidvanga

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