Hi guys, does anyone have any ideas on how I can test my scripts.

I am running winxp with my host being ya typical nsca running cpanel.
My problem is that they don't allow Telnet connections.
Being a new to CGI and perl I'm banging my head trying to get the simplist scripts running. Even a helloworld gives me a 500 error. Before you say learner, these are the things I'm tripple checking.

The path to perl is correct as per my host.
My files are in the correct folder.
Permissions are 755.
And of course my host allows CGI scripts.
Further more I can successfully run these off of my machine using a command window.

In reply to Testing scripts by zealf

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