please help with perl script

[Keletso Mokgethi <ts...@yahoo.com>]

hi all,

i am a novice trying to run a perl script on apache
for a real time dat aquisition system. i am using a
perl script developed by a professor in india who
wrote a book on programming the parallel port, which i
have attached. 

the thing is i don't know how to run the script on
apache, well i have tried and failed. i installed
apache on a laptop and was able to launch the test
page: "http://localhost" successfully. in accordance
with the requirements for running mod_perl, i created
a directory under httpd called "perl" in which i
stored the script. according to redhat's linux 6.2
apache/ssl documentation, mod_perl is ready to run
once the server is launced and there is no need for
any changes in httpd.conf

hoping to run the script i entered the URL:
http://localhost/perl/Read_dat.perl/

and got the reponse: Forbidden

"you don't have permission to access
/perl/Read_dat.perl/ on this server.

Please assist in the steps necessary to be able to
successfully run this script.

thanks

Keletso

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