Thank you for your help. I tested the script out on the command line and it worked.
However, I am still having trouble with the localhost thing.
The following is the code I'm trying to execute: 
#!C:\perl\bin\perl.exe -w

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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Running that code on the command line produces the following result which seems to have no errors: 

C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\cgi-bin>perl test.cgi
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<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>

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The Problem I am having is that I can't even get the apache test page to load when I type http://127.0.0.1 in for the URL.
I set up my httpd.conf file like the following: 
# 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.
#
# 127.0.0.1:80  This didn't work
# localhost     This also didn't work for me.
#
ServerName 127.0.0.1

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I'm running apache 2.0.48
when I type, http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/test.cgi
the browser just continuously tries to load the page like an endless loop. nothing happens.
when I type, http://127.0.0.1
nothing happens. I don't even get the apache test page. do you think that ZoneAlarm will cause a problem with this? I'm also running a router so that a couple of computers in the house can have access to the internet. maybe that is causing the problem. I can't see why that would be causing a problem because I'm not trying to access the internet when I'm running this perl script/cgi stuff. I'm just trying to view the scripts on my own computer.

In reply to Re: Re: setting up a localhost by rebot
in thread setting up a localhost by Anonymous Monk

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