FWIW - this is what I get when I run it via SSH: root at server:/var/run# perl /srv/www/site.net/www/index.pl Content-Type: text/html FOO ...yet I get a 403 in the browser (and nothing in the site error_log) TIA Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,260678,260681#msg-260681