Perl Hello World

[Ethan Mitchell]

Hello, and my apologies if this is redundant with earlier posts, but I can't find the information I need.

I am a (new) free-hosting user, and I am trying to run a basic Hello World script in Perl before working on real stuff. I am getting an HTTP 500 error.

I have the script saved as .pl within cgi-bin.
I have permissions set to 755.
I uploaded in ASCII
I'm using "#!/usr/bin/perl" as my path to perl

Thoughts? Thanks for your time, out there...

 

[axyjo]

Hmm.. most people use x10hosting for PHP sites, so more support for PHP is available than perl. All I can say is that check the shebang of your perl script against what it says inside the cpanel interface (left column, almost all the way down) it might be usr/sbin/perl

 

[bananast]

axyjo, please only post a reply if you have a knowledgable answer.

 

[Skizzerz]

Perl is not supported on free hosting

EDIT: just noticed this thread is from 2007, infracted for necro-posting and thread closed.