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The path to Perl, commonly needed for setting up CGI programs is:

/usr/bin/perl

The path to sendmail is:

/usr/sbin/sendmail

To find out the Perl modules we have installed, click the link below:

Installed Perl Modules

We are currently running Perl version 5.8.6. Here is a list of our installed modules

We can only install Perl modules that appear on the CPanel mirror lists. For security and stability we cannot include install any modules not on the lists.

The path to your cgi-bin directory is:

/home/user/public_html/cgi-bin

(change user to your hosting username)

Unfortunately, unscrupulous Internet users have recognised the ability of this script to send spam email from other people's servers.

For this reason, the server where your account is hosted does not allow any document called FormMail.pl or FormMail.cgi.

If you want to run a form script script, we suggest you use the FormMail clone provided in the CPanel or download a free web2mail PHP script from here