title: Why doesn't my Perl CGI program work on Windows?
body: <p>I have written following  in <code>index.pl</code> which is the <code>C:\xampp\htdocs\perl</code> folder:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/perl
  print "&lt;html&gt;";
  print "&lt;h2&gt;PERL IT!&lt;/h2&gt;";
  print "this is some text that should get displyed in browser";
  print "&lt;/html&gt;";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I browse to <code>http://localhost:88/perl/</code> the above HTML doesn't get displayed (I have tried in IE FF and chrome).</p>
  
  <p>What would be the reason?</p>
  
  <p>I have <code>xampp</code> and <code>apache2.2</code> installed on this Windows XP system.</p>