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In addition to the unofficial tutorial by CyberSpatium I found a (imho) much more convenient way to include Perl support to the current WAMP version - as you might have noticed, the Perl add-on is hidden in the v 1.6 downloads.....

1. Install WAMP
2. get yourself a copy of ActiveState's Active Perl for Windows (link) - it's free of charge
3. Install Active Perl
4. Modify your WAMP's Apache httpd.conf as described in the tutorial mentioned above, i.e.
4.1 add the +ExecCGI directive to the line
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks (line 192 in my conf)
4.2 find #AddHandler cgi-script .cgi and change it to AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl (line 398 in my conf)
5. If you want to run perl scripts
5.1 have a look at the first line (the "shebang" to find out where the script looks for perl; the line might look like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
5.2 copy or rename your Perl directory to whatever you see in front of the /bin/perl, e.g. rename c:\perl to c:\usr
5.3 using Apache's Alias or ScriptAlias would be much nicer, but so far I haven't found the right way to get it working.....
6. restart your WAMP Apache

If you want to run Perl or CGI scripts from a command prompt (similar to ssh under Linux), follow the instructions in the Active Perl documentation (link) - basically you need to associate file extensions .pl and .cgi with perl.exe for opening.



Post Edited (09-13-07 15:41)

scriptalias is used to tell apache where for example the cgi-bin folder is located. it is not needed because the way i setup perl in my tutorial which is to allow perl in any directory, so you dont need a cgi-bin and dont need to use scriptalias


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I installed WAMP about a week ago and am a newbie to this but love it already. However, I haven't gotten Perl to execute properly and followed your advice.

The one thing that I have not done, according to your advice, is to install the Perl add-on because it is not on the list of WAMP add-ons.

Does that mean that Perl is now included? So, Perl scripts should work now since I followed your steps to modify httpd.conf, right?

I noticed that I can't view anything in the cgi-bin through localhost because I get the 403 Error: Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/ on this server.



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you cannot not run perl scripts if you dont have perl installed




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