I haven't configured a Perl script in about 2 years. Since then, I've slept about 600 times, thus I have forgotten my shallow Perl knowledge, so please bear with me. When does a script require a .pl or .cgi extension? The script I am trying now has .pl, but my server seems to require .cgi. My server has several flavors of perl at /user/bin/perl: perl, perl5 and perl5.0503. Do I configure the line that reads #!/usr/bin/perl as: #!/usr/bin/perl #!/usr/bin/perl5 #!/usr/bin/perl5.0503 (The first two work). When try to run Perlfect's Search script in my HTML, I don't get 400 or 500 series errors, my browser just displays the search.cgi script. I know I'm missing something simple, I just haven't figured it out yet. TIA

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