okay, i tried something really easy i found to check if perl was working correctly. i have an html that has 
<html>
<head>
<title>Tell Me Your Name</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="i:/oracle/isuites/apache/apache/cgi-bin/name.cgi">
<p>Enter your name:<input name="name" /></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Submit Me!"></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

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and the cgi has 
#!I:/ORACLE/iSuites/Apache/perl/5.00503/bin/MSWin32-x86/perl -w

use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);

print header;
print start_html('Hello');
print "<h1>Hello, ", param('name'), "!</h1>\n";
print end_html;

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I is the correct drive for perl....I compiled the cgi and it worked fine. when i open the html and click submit it brings the perl to the browser.

In reply to Re^4: How do I get my webserver to execute Perl CGI scripts? by crash22
in thread How do I get my webserver to execute Perl CGI scripts? by crash22

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