Hi everyone, I just joined today!

I have been meaning to come here for a while, but I have had my hands full for quite some time.

As the title implies, my problem has become quite severe. My situation is as follows:

Originally, I installed Apache 1.3.31 (Win32) alone. I then tried installing the Perl 5.8.4 binary from activestate.com. Even after setting Apache to use the registry to interpret scripts (script alias was correct, too), It would not work. I even associated (or tried) the .pl and .cgi extensions with the path to perl.exe, but I kept getting the 500 Internal server error (error log says that it can't spawn child process). Just now, I tried to uninstall this with Add/Remove programs, but the app froze and I had to Ctl+Alt+Delete it (isn't Windoze fun). Now I can't even delete the C:\Perl directory, I'm denied access.
Would you believe I actually had the Perl 5.6.1 binary working once upon a time? It was true, until I tried to use a newer CGI.pm. I started getting errors with the new CGI.pm. It was trying to use a Util.pm module, which was incorrect according to the errors shown when running a script from the command line. I thought replacing that with Perl 5.8.4 would make everything nice again. Quite the opposite; I've never been worse off!

I've searched everywhere (got experience with searching for windoze help before installing my first Perl binary), but no one really has much documentation for running Perl on Win32. I need to figure out how to get Perl working again. I really want to avoid installing apache fresh, for fear that something goes wrong with that. I am able to use PHP 5.0.0, which was the easiest thing that I've ever got to run since using my Apache. My roots are in Perl though. Thtat was my first server-side language and I don't want to abandon it!!

Sorry, almost forgot, I am running on Windows XP: Home

Please help me when you can, I'm desparate!

Curtis Dyer

Please visit My site, which is in progress! :-)

In reply to A very severe Perl installation problem!! by dyer85

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