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Subject: Re: run perl scrip with post form from apache
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fbsd_user wrote:

>All ready had sim.pl set as 770 and owner as www and group as wheel
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>>The httpd-error.log has these messages now
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>>(2)No such file or directory: exec of /usr/local/www/data/sim.pl
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Just a thought - where does your ScriptAlias line in httpd.conf point? 
The default is:

   ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/"

and your script needs to be in there to execute as cgi. Your script is 
in the document root /usr/local/www/data

PWR.