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September 6th 2010

	Is Perl on my Server, if so where?

Solution Perl 5 is normally available on all web servers if you are hosted with a company that sells web hosting service.

If you own a dedicated server, or your own you may need to install Perl 5 onto your webserver. Ask the company you host with or a systems administrator.

If available on the webserver, the location of Perl 5 is typicaly:

/usr/bin/perl

or

/usr/local/bin/perl

The first line of your Perl/CGI script would read:

#!/usr/bin/perl

or

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

Running Perl/CGI Scripts on an NT server does not require the correct perl path as NT servers associate the .pl extension with Perl.

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