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Apache CGI Works alone, but not in HTM file

I'm migrating from a WN server to an Apache server. I have several scripts which ran fine on WN, but on Apache, they don't.

In order to attempt to understand what's going wrong, I downloaded the simplest CGI I could find - a text counter (countit.cgi). I was able to set it up and get it to work on its own eg, http://www.blah.com/countit.cgi, however, if I try to get the text embeded in an HTML file, nothing gets returned. When I look at what the server returned inside the HTML file, I see that it didn't do anything with the exec statement. I also tried the include virtual as listed in the apache.org docs on the subject (i.e.,  ) and that did the same thing, the text <!--#include...etc.. is included in the HTML returned, and not interpreted by PERL.

What's goin' on here?

Bill
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I'm not actually the one setting it up. Does this mean, once I get the admin to set it up, all the files have to be named .shtml?

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