Relocating TWiki missing perl.conf

[volkswagner]

I am trying to upgrade to a new server machine.

Old server is 6.06 on pent2, new server is 8.04.1 on Intel Atom.

I have an existing TWiki install, I would like to relocate. I followed the recommended steps by tar twiki dir. and relocate then utar.

I seem to be having a problem running perl scripts.

Potential problems:
I don't see perl.conf but I do have perl.load in mods-available.
It seems apache won't run perl scripts that don't have a file extension like .pl

I confirmed this with simple script with both a .pl and no extension. In fact the file icon in firefox is listed with a "?" when no extension is given.

Before I reconfigure twiki to rename files with .pl does anyone have a clue what I am missing?

ls /etc/apache2/mods-available
actions.conf dav.load negotiation.load
actions.load dav_lock.load perl.load
alias.conf dbd.load php5.conf
alias.load deflate.conf php5.load
asis.load deflate.load proxy_ajp.load
auth_basic.load dir.conf proxy_balancer.load
auth_digest.load dir.load proxy.conf
authn_alias.load disk_cache.conf proxy_connect.load
authn_anon.load disk_cache.load proxy_ftp.load
authn_dbd.load dump_io.load proxy_http.load
authn_dbm.load env.load proxy.load
authn_default.load expires.load rewrite.load
authn_file.load ext_filter.load ruby.load
authnz_ldap.load file_cache.load setenvif.conf
authz_dbm.load filter.load setenvif.load
authz_default.load headers.load speling.load
authz_groupfile.load ident.load ssl.conf
authz_host.load imagemap.load ssl.load
authz_owner.load include.load status.conf
authz_user.load info.conf status.load
autoindex.conf info.load substitute.load
autoindex.load ldap.load suexec.load
cache.load log_forensic.load unique_id.load
cern_meta.load mem_cache.conf userdir.conf
cgid.conf mem_cache.load userdir.load
cgid.load mime.conf usertrack.load
cgi.load mime.load version.load
charset_lite.load mime_magic.conf vhost_alias.load
dav_fs.conf mime_magic.load
dav_fs.load negotiation.conf


ls /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
alias.conf autoindex.conf mime.load setenvif.conf
alias.load autoindex.load negotiation.conf setenvif.load
auth_basic.load cgi.load negotiation.load ssl.conf
authn_file.load dir.conf perl.load ssl.load
authz_default.load dir.load php5.conf status.conf
authz_groupfile.load env.load php5.load status.load
authz_host.load include.load rewrite.load suexec.load
authz_user.load mime.conf ruby.load

libapache2-mod-perl2 is installed and latest version

I also tried various things with httpd.conf:

AddHandler cgi-script .pl
AddHandler cgi-script .pl *
#AddHandler cgi-script .pl

and
AddHandler cgi-script

The above returns error when restarting apache because no extensions were listed.