Some servers will only run scripts in a CGI Directory: a special directory called
Sometimes, a web server will have special requirements for its CGI Directory. Please check with your web hosting company's online documentation to see if this is the case.
The CGI Directory is usually found in your web root, or one directory above it. Your web root is the directory which contains the top level web page for your site, or the index.html file that is displayed when visitors first come to your website.
Frequently, regular .html pages and images cannot be viewed from within a CGI Directory; therefore, images and published pages must reside in a different section of the site. Templates, which are .html files, are normally opened by the Perl program and not by the Web Server, so they should be placed alongside the program files in the CGI Directory.