On previous versions of MacOS, I was able to run perl scripts from a local Apache server that called ActivePerl without problem. With MacOS Sonoma, the same script now generates an “Internal Server Error”,
AH01215: (8)Exec format error, exec of ‘/Users//Sites/index.cgi’ failed

If I replace

#!/Users/<short user name>/Library/Caches/activestate/bin/perl

with the default system perl, it again works:

#!/usr/bin/perl

Example script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
my $cgi = CGI->new;
print $cgi->header( -type => 'text/plain' );
print $ENV{SERVER_SOFTWARE};

when working, returns: Apache/2.4.58 (Unix)

Installation details:

MacOS Sonoma 14.5 (23F79)

/Users/short_user_name/Library/Caches/activestate/bin/perl -v
perl 5 (v5.36.3) provided by ActiveState

sudo apachectl -v
Server version: Apache/2.4.58 (Unix)

I have tried several fixes including the following:

Apache gives Access denied on macOS Catalina

to give system wide access to both /usr/sbin/httpd and /Users/short_user_name/Library/Caches/activestate/bin/perl which did not help.

I would really like to get this to work with ActivePerl since I do not want to add modules to the system perl. Any ideas on how to get this to work?