Fail to spawn perl in apache

llancet has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi everyone!
I'm beginning to learn CGI, with apache in windows. The code is simple:

#!perl
##
##  printenv -- demo CGI program which just prints its environment
##

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
foreach $var (sort(keys(%ENV))) {
    $val = $ENV{$var};
    $val =~ s|\n|\\n|g;
    $val =~ s|"|\\"|g;
    print "${var}=\"${val}\"\n";
}
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However, it always tell me:

couldn't create child process: 720003: printenv.pl
couldn't spawn child process: C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundat
+ion/Apache2.2/cgi-bin/printenv.pl
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but "perl" is in path, and can be called directly.
Moreover, I also tried #!c:/camelbox/bin/perl, it also don't work.

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Re: Fail to spawn perl in apache by aquarium (Curate) on Jan 29, 2010 at 03:23 UTC
Please lookup the relevant config for perl/cgi on apache documentation. Apache runs as another userid and has a different environment than what you have when logged in. the hardest line to type correctly is: stty erase ^H	[reply]
Re^2: Fail to spawn perl in apache by llancet (Friar) on Jan 29, 2010 at 05:03 UTC
I also tried to include perl path in the script 1st line, but it also not work.	[reply]
Re^3: Fail to spawn perl in apache by Anonymous Monk on Jan 29, 2010 at 05:11 UTC
That is also an apache configuration issue	[reply]
Re^3: Fail to spawn perl in apache by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Jan 29, 2010 at 05:46 UTC
Go to Start-> Search and look for perl.exe. It'll return the path you need for the 1st line.	[reply]
Re: Fail to spawn perl in apache by Anonymous Monk on Jan 29, 2010 at 02:35 UTC
It may be in path, but apache clearly can't see it	[reply]