Hi, I pulled a tutorial off the web. It told me to edit the httpd configure file as follows: <directory \> Options ... ExecCGI... AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl With these changes I can run the following file #!C:/perl/bin/perl.exe print "Content-type:text/html\n\n"; print "hello, world!"; just fine. What I cannot do is to run the file #!C:/perl/bin/perl.exe use CGI "standard"; print start_html; print header; print "hello world!"; print end_html; This file runs ok under perl, just not apache. When I set everythin up under IIS on my office computer, there was a step I had to take which told the browser what to do with a .pl file. I think that step was missing from my tutorial. Any help is appreciated. Mary Anderson --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx