I am not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question but everyone here is so smart I think someone will be able to help me.

I am running apache and mod_perl on windows 2000. I want to use CGI as my front page, index.html, but I am not sure how to do that? Right now I am doing this: 
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Test Page</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
+">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=/cgi-bin/index.cgi">
</head>
</html>

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I got the second meta line from someone elses code here. It runs the cgi script and it works fine but I want to be able to skip this step. I am new to html, apache and cgi so any help would be greatly appricated and any pointers on where to look would be great also.

Thanks,
Sam

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