Yep, copied the code straight from the webpage. Tried stopping and starting Apache several times. Here's some terminal output. 

Megan:~ Chuma$ ls -l /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/
total 8
-rw-r--r--  1 root    wheel  1074 Dec 17  2012 printenv.vbs
-rw-r--r--  1 root    wheel  1133 Dec 17  2012 printenv.wsf
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 Chuma  staff   157 Feb  3 02:52 test.pl

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Megan:~ Chuma$ perl /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/test.pl
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<html><body>Test Page</body></html>Megan:~ Chuma$

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kcott: I tried those changes, but now it doesn't work at all - browser says it can't find "localhost".

In reply to Re^2: CGI on Mac OS 10.11 by Anonymous Monk
in thread CGI on Mac OS 10.11 by Chuma

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