I still wasn't able to get my localhost to work. Here's the cgi script I'm trying to run: 
#!C:\perl\bin\perl.exe -wT

use strict;
use CGI;

my $query = new CGI;


print $query->header( "text/html" );

print <<END_HERE;
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My First CGI Script</title>
  </head>
  <body bgcolor="#FFFFCC">
    <h1>This is a pretty lame Web page</h1>
    <p>Who is this Ovid guy, anyway?</p>
  </body>
</html>
END_HERE
# must have a line after "END_HERE" or Perl won't recognize
# the token

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And here is how my configuration file httpd.conf is set up: 
#
# ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify 
+itself.
# This can often be determined automatically, but we recommend you spe
+cify
# it explicitly to prevent problems during startup.
#
# If this is not set to valid DNS name for your host, server-generated
# redirections will not work.  See also the UseCanonicalName directive
+.
#
# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP addres
+s here.
# You will have to access it by its address anyway, and this will make
+ 
# redirections work in a sensible way.
#
# rebot.mn.rr.com:80
# 127.0.0.1:80
ServerName 127.0.0.1

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my script alias is also set up the following way: 
# ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
# ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
# documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and
# run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to th
+e client.
# The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives as
+ to
# Alias.
#
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/"

#
# "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin" should be changed to
+ whatever your ScriptAliased
# CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
#
<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

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I am trying to use 127.0.0.1 to access and run this script. When I type the following script into the browser nothing happens and the browser keeps running and trying to load the page (acts like an infinate loop): http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/test.cgi thank you for your suggestion. I just can't get it to work. Does the fact that I'm also using ZoneAlarm and a hub make any difference? I don't know.

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