The first thing is to check in your web server error log. The webserver tells you what happens.

Also, you're not printing the HTML elements. Start with an even simpler script:

use strict;
use CGI;
my $cgi = CGI->new;
print $cgi->header;
print '<html><body>Hello World</body></html>';

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Then, modify that script to print out the HTML generated by CGI:

...
print $cgi->header();
print $cgi->start_html();
print $cgi->p("Hello World");
print $cgi->end_html();

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In reply to Re: Problem with cgi script by Corion
in thread Problem with cgi script by nagalenoj

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