If you decide to go with Apache for Windows, you can read this link for step-by-step instructions on how to set it up.

I haven't used Personal Web Server, that I recall, but it may be a case of associating the .cgi extension with the Perl executable. Personally, I don't like that as it typically requires editing the registry to manually add the -T switch to turn on taint checking. Otherwise, if the shebang line (#!/usr/bin/perl) is the problem, change it to the path of the Perl executable. It will then resemble something like the following: 

#!C:\perl\bin\perl.exe -wT

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The -wT, strictly speaking, isn't necessary, but the warnings are helpful when developing your code and the -T switch is essential when doing Web programming as it turns on taint checking. See perlsec for details.

Last comment: if you are getting internal server errors, what do your Web server logs say? Find them and they'll probably tell you exactly what the problem is.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid - setting up a Web server) Re: what instead of #!/usr/bin/perl by Ovid
in thread what instead of #!/usr/bin/perl by Anonymous Monk

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