Perl Scripts only work on index.shtml ?

[Ozarkian]

Hello everyone, If anyone could help that would be great. I am using Mandrake 8.0 with Apache 1.3.19. I am having problems getting Perl scripts to run. They work just fine on my index.shtml file, but if I try to call a script on filename.shtml it doesn`t run. If I change filename.shtml to index.shtml it works fine. I've looked in the server error logs and it doesn't show any errors. Does anyone have any advice?

[WilliamWallace]

perl scripts should be run as cgi's. put those scripts in your cgi-bin directory and pass html data to them through forms, etc.