Hi Sander; there are the two lines that I get from the error.log file [Wed Nov 12 12:21:44 2008] [error] [client 192.168.12.189] (OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified. : couldn't create child process: 720003: index.cgi [Wed Nov 12 12:21:44 2008] [error] [client 192.168.12.189] (OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified. : couldn't spawn child process: C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/bugzilla/index.cgi I do have perl loaded I have associated the perl interpreter with cgi, I used these instructions to setup and configure Apache and to no avail! ----- Original Message ---- From: Sander Temme <sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:39:06 PM Subject: Re: CGI on Apache 2.2 On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Bill Ferrarini wrote: > Thanks for helping me > the error logs says it cannot find the path and it couldn't create the child process 720003: index.cgi > then the next line says system cannot find the path specified: couldn't spawn child process. and then gives the url for the file. Rather than paraphrasing, feel free to copy and paste the relevant lines directly into your e-mail. > PS we are running on Windows! Associate the .cgi filename extension with your Perl interpreter? You do have Perl installed, right? S. --Sander Temme sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx PGP FP: 51B4 8727 466A 0BC3 69F4 B7B8 B2BE BC40 1529 24AF --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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