can somebody help me with following errors regarding Apache?

Hello there,

I just installed Apache webserver, and I am right now spending
nearly 3 hrs trying to run the perl script, but it's not working.

I get the following error message in the error log:
couldn't spawn child process: c:/program files/apache group/apache/cgi-bin/runit.pl

what I basically did was i typed in my IP address and then /cgi-bin/ and the name of my
perl script. so it would look like:

##.###.##/cgi-bin/runit.pl(or .cgi)

and it gives me the error message. am i doing something wrong? you are more than welcome
to give me any advice

Young

P.S. by the way, during the installation of Apache server, it prompted me for server name and domain
name, and I just made something up. Am I allowed to do that?