Redirect browser to local file

[drhowarddrfine]

I'm just learning PERL. I installed ActivePerl on my win computer and run TinyWeb server. I wrote a little "Hello, World!" script that responds properly when I access it with my browser. It's called index.pl and it prints all the html code out to the browser so this works.

What I would like to try is have index.pl redirect to a local .html file. When I try this I get a "403 Forbidden" error. This is what I wrote:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $URL="http://localhost/mytest.html";
print "Location: $URL\n\n";

I also just used print "Location: mytest.html";

I've put the .html file in the same folder as the .pl file as well as the root folder but I always get the same error. I can access the file by using localhost/mytest.html

[drhowarddrfine]

I have some reading still to do but it seems my file should have been named index.cgi. Changing the name made it work but why didn't index.pl?

[drhowarddrfine]

This is craaazzzy, man. Now index.pl works just fine and redirects to mytest.html. I don't know what I did but it's working now.