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I'm not a web developer, so I'll grasp at a few straws.

Things I've tried:

I pointed my browser at "http://protechflooring.co.uk" and got an "Index of /" page listing cgi-bin as the only entry. It looks like what I'd expect to see when Apache is serving up a directory without an index.html file.
I tried clicking the cgi-bin directory and got the (expected) "403: Forbidden" page.
I notice that you mentioned that a script was named "perl_script.pl", so I tried going to http://protechflooring.co.uk/cgi-bin/perl_script.pl, at which point it gave me a "500: Internal Error" page.
Finally, I entered http://protechflooring.co.uk/cgi-bin/boink.pl, as I doubt that you have a file named boink.pl in there, and got a "404: Page Not Found" error.

From that, it appears to me that you need an "index.html" page. I'd suggest trying something trivial like:

<html>
 <head> <title>CHEESY INDEX PAGE</title></head>
 <body>
  And here's a link to
  <a href="http://protechflooring.co.uk/cgi-bin/boink.pl">a page that 
+doesn't exist</a>
  as well as a link to 
  <a href="http://protechflooring.co.uk/cgi-bin/perl_script.pl">the sc
+ript you have</a>
 </body>
</html>
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Since you're getting a 500 error on the perl script, either the web server is misconfigured somehow, or the script is encountering an error while running. So let's try putting a totally simple perl script there to see if it will work. So we want the simplest possible thing. Perhaps just printing something, and nothing else, like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "NOTHING TO SEE HERE!\n";
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~~I used the path /usr/bin/perl, as it looks like it should be either that or /usr/local/bin/perl depending on how I should interpret the dialog near the beginning.~~

So if it were me, I'd upload the index.html page and the script above into cgi-bin as boink.pl. Then I'd try to hit http://protechflooring.co.uk.

I'd hope it would show the cheesy index page. If so, that's one problem down. I'd then try to hit http://protechflooring.co.uk/cgi-bin/boink.pl (or just press the link, if the index.html page works properly) and see if we still get a 500 error or not. We it works and we get a blank (or "NOTHING TO SEE HERE"), then it would indicate a problem somewhere in perl_script.pl. ~~If we still get a 500 error, then I'd try changing the script to use the other path and try again.~~

Do you have shell access to the machine you're uploading to?

I'll monitor this thread for a while and see how far you're getting.

Update: after reading huck's link to hostgator support, I struck out some irrelevent stuff.

Update: Added the content-type bit. Thanks to tangent for pointing it out!

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

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