CGI-Bin Help!

Hi, thanks for visiting, I have just installed Apache Version Apache_1.3.19-win32-no_src-r2. I am looking to just use this as a test server on my own computer so that I can learn CGI. I have installed it all correctly and it says that I have. I am very much a newby at this and basically all I know about apache is how to get it installed. I have always been a graphic designer and this is all new to me.

Anyways, either I am doing it incorrectly or I need to configure it more. I have been told to put the CGI Scripts into the CGI-Bin and then to type:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi

into the broweser. Of course apache is running. I had made a script names test.pl and I have activestate perl installed. It seems to me like it is not even detecting the cgi-bin. I get the error that says

page cannot be found. If anyone has any ideas, please post them, or my e-mail is neeshman@hotmail.com. Thanks.

it might be useful to check the contents of your access_log and error_log files. ( if you don't know where you can find them just do a search on your file system ) it will tell you exactly what file the server was looking for.

I'm having a similar problem.

Though samplecgi.pl works (I tested it on my web server online, not on my machine), when I run it on my local machine thru my Apache web server, with the following url :

URL

I get the following error in my logs, and the browser says 'Internal error'.

[error] [client 127.0.0.1] couldn't spawn child process: c:/program files/apache group/apache/cgi-bin/samplecgi.pl


PLS HELP!!!!

Thanks,

Ravi
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make sure that the first line of your script ( samplecgi.pl ) points to your perl interpreter

e.g.
#!c:/path/to/perl -w