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When I try to run a CGI script from my browser, it tries to download a file of type “application/x-perl” instead. What gives?

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When I try to run a CGI script from my browser, it tries to download a file of type “application/x-perl” instead. What gives?

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Your Web server has been misconfigured. It doesn’t know that it should execute your Perl program, so it’s just returning it to the browser. See section 6 of this document for details on how to configure your particular Web server to know that Perl scripts should be executed.