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Asked: 2026-06-17T12:43:38+00:00

I just was given a new Cent OS virtual server to setup with a

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I just was given a new Cent OS virtual server to setup with a web application running Apache 2.2. I have one perl script that needs to run through a browser and I just get error 500 in my browser when trying to run it.
I setup a simple helloworld test to simply get perl to output some info to the browser.

I added this to httpd.conf

<Directory "/var/www/my_main_dir/testperl">
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
AllowOverride All
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

I created a hello.pl file that simply contains two lines:

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello, world!\n";

Trying to pull this up in a browser ( http://mydomain.com/testperl/hello.pl ) results in the 500 Internal Server Error.

Meanwhile, I created hello.html:

print <HTML><BODY>
Hello, world!
</BODY></HTML>

and that comes up fine in my browser ( http://mydomain.com/testperl/hello.html )

Any help would be appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The comment is right, you need a shebang so knows what to do with your Perl script. Assuming Perl is as /usr/bin/perl, add #!/usr/bin/perl as the first line.

    If it still doesn’t work, make sure that the Perl script is executable, and that the user Apache runs as has permission to execute it.

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