Im not so sure that this is an appropriate question. Forgive me if im speaking out of line, but CGI, though commonly done with perl, can be done in any language, with any webserver. that would be the domain of the question. As to why the %ENV hash isnt being created, you may want to look at your documentation for you webserver. As far as I know the %ENV hash is created each and every time a CGI request comes into a perl script. Just like there are environmental variables for bash, chs, sh, corba, and python scripts.

It seems like your question has to do with CGI and various network software not perl