Your combining two different ways of enable scripts: 
<Directory "/var/www/html1">
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/html1"
</Directory>

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Enables your scripts under http://myIPaddress/cgi-bin/a.pl 

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

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Would enable your script to run everywhere in your DocumentRoot, but you'll also need: 
<Directory "/var/www/html1">
Options +ExecCGI
</Directory>

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ScriptAlias sets up an alias, and does the +ExecCGI implicitly for the location.

If you don't want to be bound by your location, you need to explicitly add ExecCGI rights, and tell Apache to recognize the .pl extension.

Please consider using mod_perl though, if you want to be nice to your server...

In reply to Re: How to configure Apache for running perl scripts. by Gilimanjaro
in thread How to configure Apache for running perl scripts. by munu

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