ok, I added

<Directory “/home/outdoorn/www/outdoorns.com/”>
Options +ExecCGI
</Directory>

to httpd.conf and restarted apache

now I'm getting an Internal Server Error, which translates to Premature end of script headers: hello.pl in my error log

the script is what you gave me:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

print "Content-Type: text/html \n\n";
print "hello!"


Also getting the Premature end of script headers: for jump.cgi