Pingu is struggling again.

He has recently installed Windows 2000 pro on his home box to help in developing web-based bits and pieces but cannot get IIS to run Perl scripts.

If this is the wrong place to ask feel free to redirect me (preferably without too many flames) - However I've tried Micro$oft's website plus a nuber of google searches to no avail.

IIS is running, it's configured to associate .pl files with perl.exe and perl.exe seems to start up when I request a perl script through my browser (I checked the task list and it's there). But nothing happens, the browser sits there, it doesn't time out but I get no error message, no program output, zip. I've tried the most basic script: 
use CGI qw(:standard);
use strict;
print header();
print start_html("Test");
print h1("This is a test");
print end_html();

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I can run perl stuff from the command line just fine...

Any insight/help/instructions for posting this question in a more sensible forum/etc./etc. much appreciated.

Pingu
--- Everything in moderation, including moderation.

In reply to Cannot run Perl under IIS (Win2000 pro) by Pingu

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