I've got a very simple Perl CGI script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w # The shebang is correct, so don't write back and ask print "print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "<html><body>\n"; print "<hr>Hello, world!<br><hr>\n"; print "</body></html>\n"; # You might recognize this code as a cut-paste # from hellocgi.cgi bundled with Apache

The code throws a 500 Internal Server Error. I've already made sure of the following:
My guess is that there's something that needs to be done. I pass the plate of wisdom asking for someone to tell me what to do!

Thanks,
Petras

In reply to Wanting Validation for Smacking my Sysadmin (500 error problem) by Petras

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