Here's the full program that i was trying to run and the HTML content. 

use Apache::Request;
use CGI;

my $apr= Apache::Request->new(shift);
my $page = new CGI;

my $test=$apr->param('school');

print $page->header();

print("Post Data " . $test);

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HTML content 

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<form method=Post action='test.pl' >
<input type=text name='school' value='test'>
<input type=submit value='Ok'>
</form>
</body>
</html>

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mod_perl configuration in http.conf

Alias /perl/ /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/

  PerlModule Apache::Registry
  <Location /perl/>
      SetHandler perl-script
      PerlHandler Apache::Registry
      Options +ExecCGI
      PerlSendHeader On
      allow from all
  </Location>

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Apache version is 1.3.

In reply to Re^2: Problem with getting POST request data with Apache::Request object by thil
in thread Problem with getting POST request data with Apache::Request object by thil

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