Hi! I have the xampp version of apache web server installed as a development platform (on windows 7) I have written a couple of perl scripts and placed them on the server but I want to use a later version of perl than what was delivered with xampp. So I written in the head of the perl file a redirect to the newer version (haven't found a way to update the xampp version of perl). However this seems to work only when I rename the perlscript and give it the extension "cgi". Otherwise it tries to execute using xampps perl install and that wont work . Just curious, why? And does someone know how to update xampp version of perl? And why when I try to add packages to xampp perl it complains that nmake15 is not a 64 bit application. Works fine in the other perl installation. /T