Hi Mike,

Some webhosts have multiple versions of Perl installed; the perl at /usr/bin/perl is just the system perl. One place to look might be /usr/local/bin/, on one of my hosts I've got a bunch of different perls there (perl5.22.1, perl5.14.1, etc.). (Or another trick if you've got a bash shell, might work on others too: try typing "perl" and pressing tab twice, then use the which command to locate the binaries bash shows you.)

If you're still having problems, feel free to post your code and error messages here, or input and expected vs. actual output. BTW, one thing that might help you get better error messages instead of "500 Internal Server Error" is if you put use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); at the top of your script.

Regards,
-- Hauke D

In reply to Re^2: Script Issues by haukex
in thread Script Issues by Iowachaser

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