hmm well I still don't know what Im doing wrong ! I decided to put a perl_scripts directory
within my cgi-bin directory and go to that URL. I still get the error
"Error:security level=60! ERROR:Attempt to execute unauthorized application failed"

I wanted to look in the log and I stuck to the default path for it which was this: 
open(LOG, ">>/tmp/perlplus-secure.log");

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Should that write to the tmp directory on my system ? I looked in the tmp directory
where all stuff like cookies from the web etc. goes..but its not there

In fact in case it helps you help me here is the whole cgi security script: 
use CGI;
$q = new CGI;

open(LOG, ">>/tmp/perlplus-secure.log");
$url = $q->param('URL');
print LOG "URL=" . $url . "\n";

# Some potentially useful environment variables you can play with:
#
# DOCUMENT_ROOT=/ahome
# GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1
# HTTP_HOST=www.xyz.edu
# HTTP_REFERER=http://www.xyz.EDU/~sol0/ptk/plop.ppl
# HTTP_USER_AGENT='Mozilla/4.5C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.3 IP32)'
# REMOTE_ADDR=a.b.c.d
# REMOTE_PORT=12801
# REQUEST_METHOD=POST
# REQUEST_URI=/cgi-bin/perlplus-secure.cgi
# SCRIPT_FILENAME=/home/wwwserv/cgi-bin/perlplus-secure.cgi
# SCRIPT_NAME=/cgi-bin/perlplus-secure.cgi
# SERVER_NAME=www.xyz.EDU
# SERVER_PORT=80
# SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.0
# SERVER_SOFTWARE=Apache/1.2.6

# This example varies the security level as required for the sample pl
+ugins:

#$URL_ROOT="http://www/~eserte/ppl";
#$URL_ROOT="http://www.Lehigh.EDU/~sol0/ptk/ppl";
$URL_ROOT="http://myhost/~basm101/cgi-bin/perl_scripts";
%url = ("$URL_ROOT/neko.ppl" => 3,
    "$URL_ROOT/plop.ppl" => 3,
    "$URL_ROOT/y2k.ppl" => 3,
    "$URL_ROOT/thunder.ppl" => 3,
    "$URL_ROOT/ptk_test.ppl" => 3,
    "$URL_ROOT/quest.ppl" => 3,
    "$URL_ROOT/tktetris.ppl" => 3
       );

$sec_level= $url{$url} || 1;

print LOG "  security level=$sec_level\n";
close LOG;
                                                    
print "Content-type: application/x-perlplus:.ppl:Perl\n\n";
print "$sec_level";

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I did screw around with the numbers, but I think level 3 means the script
should execute.
thanks again for your help,
basm101

In reply to Re: Re^5: PerlPlusPlugin: Security CGI problems by basm101
in thread PerlPlusPlugin: Security CGI problems by basm101

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