OK, this is a shot in the dark and has nothing to do with perl but your post doesn't give much information about the problem you are having (except that it appears to be a textbook example of a first cgi script). My guess is that your script simply isn't running "I can't seem to get the Perl script to run off the server". A simple problem like this has bitten me more than once. Be sure to make the perl script executable. A chmod 755 pathandfilename from the command line should suffice (if this is the problem.)

Other than that, I always run a tail -f error_log in one session and a tail -f access_log in another so that I see exactly what is going on while I debug. You should also try changing the first line in your script to 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

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The next line is a must have 
use strict;

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And while some may feel this is overkill, it will help you solve a lot of problems a lot quicker. 
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

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In reply to Re: Trouble getting a Perl script to run with an HTML form by ChrisR
in thread Trouble getting a Perl script to run with an HTML form by alarthame

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