Perl Problem: Internal Server Error 500

Running Apache 2 (running as a console) on win95 (no other choice right now URL )
Perl/PHP set up according to http://www.apachefreaks.com/forums/index.p...wtopic=3618&hl=

localhost/127.0.0.1 apache tests and phpinfo.php work fine, but when I try running the 'hello.cgi' I get an Internal Server Error (500).

Error log reads: [Thu May 27 13:07:56 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : couldn't create child process: 720002: hello.cgi, referer: http://localhost/
[Thu May 27 13:07:56 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified. : couldn't spawn child process: C:/WINDOWS/DESKTOP/HTML/home/hello.cgi, referer: http://localhost/

The hello.cgi file executes through the command line and its code is:
#!/perl/bin/perl
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "Hello, World";

The perl.exe file is located in C:/windows/desktop/html/home/perl/bin

Help would be great

I've never run perl on Windows, so this may just be a convention I'm not familiar with, but I would think your first line should reflect the actual path to the perl executable.

I tried #!c:/windows/desktop/perl/bin/perl.exe and many other path names but I still get the same error (if you recall I stated in my previous msg that the path to perl.exe was c:/windows/desktop/perl/bin/

Right, you stated that that's what the path to perl was, but the code you provided didn't reflect that path, and you left no indication that you had tried other paths. I can only work with what you give me.

Maybe the issue has to do with a discrepancy between your document root and the actual file path to hello.cgi.

-the documentroot is in the same directory as the perl folder, and that is why in my first post's .cgi file header I reference the location /perl/bin/perl.

Ah well, thanks for all of your help.
I am guessing that you have never installed a Apache+Perl on windows 95 (I wouldn't if I had the choice).

Your shebang line is wrong. For windows it is #!C:/PERL/BIN/PERL.EXE
That explains why you can't spawn any child processes.