I'd get away from the Perl part for a second, and try basic CGI functions: 
#!/bin/sh
echo content-type: text/plain
echo
date

[download]
Put this somewhere, and if you don't get the date every time you reload, your problem clearly isn't Perl.

Your shebang line also looks weirdly weird as well. Are you sure that's the path to Perl?

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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In reply to •Re: Apache/CGI error: "Premature end of script headers" by merlyn
in thread Apache/CGI error: "Premature end of script headers" by Callum

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