Ok A few questions and an introduction.

Introduction I am new to linux. But not new to computers. I know windows inside and out, I know unix and also the os/400.
Anyways now to the questions...

Simply put I went through and looked at a lot of websites... All of them had different ways to do it.
I hate apacheconfig btw. It puts a bunch of extra crap in the httpd.conf file but oh wells.
Pretty much so far in order.
apt-get install apache
apt-get install php4
apt-get install php4-mysql
apt-get install libapache-mod-perl
Then another website suggested installing the sources
apt-get source libapache-mod-perl
apt-get source apache
Then I tried compiling them. Got the make Makefile.PL to work and compile, but couldn't find the apache sources to make them so gave up on that route.
Tried changing commands inside the httpd.conf file, one site made it look sooooo easy
Alias /perl/ /var/www/perl/

PerlModule Apache::Registry
<Location /etc/apache/lib/perl/>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
Options ExecCGI
PerlSendHeader On
allow from all
</Location>

#apache start
[error] can't locate strict.pm

So thats the current error I get, when I take the perl stuff out, my php4 and webserver work just fine.
Then after perl I need help with bml Hehe *hates feeling like a newbie*
Thanks for anyone that has input on this