shebang and perl install directory in windows

[Duffman12]

So the shebang is there to find the location of the perl interpreter. I found this info:

For the perl path C:/usr/bin/perl.exe all of these are/were valid. I prefer the last one because of the Linux <<>> Windows portability.
#!C:/usr/bin/perl.exe
#!C:/usr/bin/perl
#!/usr/bin/perl.exe
#!/usr/bin/perl

this guy suggets you install perl in C:/usr instead of the default c:/perl. This seems logical because unix machines use usr/bin/perl. (the reason this issue arose in the first place was because I installed bugzilla, and they're using usr/bin/perl)

So the consensus is that I want the shebang to be #!usr/bin/perl.

One solution is to reinstall perl in C:/usr. Are there any draw backs to this?

Is there another way to get these results? manipulate the PATH or httpd.conf or something to alias usr/bin to C:/perl/bin?

[KevinADC]

You can try it but you will need to completely uninstall perl if its already installed, reinstall it to the new directory and see how it works. But if the only reason is to avoid having to change the shebang line that is trivial. Changing a shebang line takes like 2 seconds.

[FishMonger]

Windows doesn't use the shebang line to find the location of the perl interpreter. It uses the file type association, default being .pl but you can easily create an additional one for .cgi.

If you're using the apache web server, it can/will use the shebang line. However, when running apache on Windows, you can use the ScriptInterpreterSource directive to tell it to use the registry to find the location of the perl interpreter.

<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-bin">
    ScriptInterpreterSource Registry
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>